(uptempo cheery music) - [Tishan] I'm trying to ask the question, where are our bodies now?

Where is the space that our bodies occupied?

- [Narrator] The cloud shaped cars exhibited near the front entrance of the museum are by Tishan Hsu, a Boston artist, whose work explores the increasingly unsettling relationship between technology and the human body.

- Everything is connected.

- [Narrator] This exhibit was inspired by his lifelong love of cars and his uneasiness about where technology is taking us.

- That's a sense that this thing is really about this service that just floats, and this could also be anywhere, it could float up on the wall.

And also if you look at your laptop on a desk, it's actually kind of floating on the desk.

So it's kind of referencing that whole affect of this world that we're moving into.

I just kind of want to ask a question.

Maybe we should need to think about where we are in all this and where we want to go.

We are the tool and we are the objects of the tool.

We are being controlled by the tool, and we are also the tool.

There is a darkness to what's happening here.

We're losing control in a certain sense.

We're losing agency, definitely we're moving much faster than ever before, and the technology is pushing that, and it was sort of moving faster almost than I think people can really take in.

So this is called Grass Screen Skin.

So it plays on the fact that this grass, there's a skin like quality to this, it's like wrapped literally over like a skin for its production.

And then there's skin in the image itself.

There's the evidence of body.

- [Narrator] And the wrappings carry words and images, posing questions that even the artist can't answer.

- I think looking at the work now over time, I'm really just asking the question, like, what is really going on right now?

I think we're in danger of losing connections to our bodies, but not just physical, but cognitively, our sort of the organic, the human body is being challenged by technology.

- I love this thing, it's like got nature on it and grass, but it's like in the shape of some fantastic car.

We went through the whole show, and this is one that sticks with me quite a bit.

- It's like the arm, you know what I mean?

- Yeah.

- But everybody brings their own particular frame of reference to contemporary art.

And it's in fact the interpretation that each of us brings to it that completes the artwork and completes the experience.

(slow relaxing music) - I never have an expectation of what a response to a work will be.

You never wanna second guess what a response will be, but that response is wonderful.

That, I couldn't wish for more, it's like, what is this?

Because in a way, when we're talking, when you ask, you know, what do I want from the work, from people to look at my work, and to perhaps have people pause a minute just to kind of process a little bit, what is it?

- [Attendee 2] I just wanna.