About

Mor Afgin is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tel Aviv working across sculpture, installation, video, and time-based processes. His practice is grounded in the conviction that all systems—whether technological, political, or biological—possess the potential to be hacked, distorted, and recruited for new purposes.

Operating as a "one-man industrial zone," Afgin treats contemporary technology not as a medium, but as a strategy. His work navigates the tension between the rational and the irrational, often building specific systems—mechanical, chemical, or conceptual—to create environments where control meets collapse. Whether engineering a hermetically sealed chamber to accelerate the entropy of an iron sword (Time Machine), or powering a video game with a petrol engine to link virtual labor with fossil fuel (Age of Empires), Afgin materializes the digital, turning abstract code into heavy, physical artifacts.

Driven by the politics of capability and the autarky of the 21st century, his research dissects the "back of the clock," dismantling mechanisms to understand their function and reassembling them to serve new metaphors. His recent work fuses the aesthetics of American War Bonds with AI-generated imagery and local archaeology, exploring how technology encodes values, myths, and ideologies.

Ultimately, Afgin’s installations act as speculative machines or "sculptures with a function." His practice is a pursuit of the irrational number Pi—an attempt to square the circle between the physical and the metaphysical, offering a space for reflection, doubt, and quiet confrontation within the accelerated pulse of reality.

Afgin holds a B.F.A. from Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design. After living and working internationally, he returned to Tel Aviv, where his current research investigates the intersection of information warfare, archaeology, and national trauma.