Collapse of the Weave Function fits within one of the core themes of LAB 4 —“soft” science fiction— understood as poetic interventions in the technological fault lines of the present. The project will take shape through four works: the audiovisual installation Hometown and the textile pieces Collapse of the Weave Function, Vortices, and Centerless, all commissioned by Medialab Matadero specifically for this occasion. Filmed in Kyiv and Beirut in 2017, Hometown (2018) constructs an imaginary city through two places that never meet, yet become a unified landscape across the film’s two screens. Ghina and Lera, the protagonists, are doubles of the same character. While they remain apart, speaking in turns, the film opens up a visual and linguistic space that is more poetic than narrative. The images act as resonances—indirect, suggestive, and polysemic. What should feel ordinary becomes unsettling. Meanwhile, the web and digital layers of reality—abstract and intangible—are rendered...