Biographies of Objects considers how the same object—a blue-and-white porcelain plate—can refer to many different national traditions: Russian, Dutch, Chinese, and British. Everything else is nothing more than a construct, a figment of the imagination, an attempt to find some stability in a world with limitless factors that have not been taken into account, from Sophia the robot, who recently received Saudi citizenship, to plants, rocks and bacteria. The first-person mechanical voiceover along with images of search engine pages and computer code screens hint at superficial generalisation. The question raised is nevertheless pertinent and serious: what are modern human beings and how are their identities defined if they constantly use the products of very different epochs, branches of evolution and cultures, all displaced in the boundless space of the world wide web?
