PLANNED OBSOLESCENCE  

Seager Gallery presents Planned obsolescence is the practice of designing products to become obsolete—an economic strategy that defines modern consumption. Yet beyond material objects, this principle extends to bodies, technologies, and cultural trends. Planned Obsolescence interrogates cycles of decay and renewal, questioning what is discarded, what is resurrected, and how we navigate an existence shaped by impermanence.

The exhibition considers:

• Reversing time and extending the present—from anti-aging technologies to the pursuit of immortality.

• Rituals of self-preservation and self-optimization, as individuals attempt to resist obsolescence in an era of relentless productivity.

• Trend cycles and technological resurgence, where the past returns with new meaning—be it outdated gadgets, resurrected aesthetics, or cultural nostalgia.

Through video, installation, sculpture, and mixed media works, Planned Obsolescence presents a meditation on temporality, obsolescence, and the tension between disposability and permanence.

Knotted Timelines

Knotted Timelines is an exhibition series investigating the complex entanglements of past, present, and future. At a time when our sense of time feels increasingly fractured—marked by accelerating technological cycles, ecological crises, and shifting socio-political landscapes—this series challenges the linearity of history. Instead, it presents time as knotted, recursive, and unstable. Each exhibition in the series explores how we negotiate identity, agency, and survival in the face of ongoing uncertainty, using archival practices, contemporary rituals, and speculative futures as its lens.