Taketo Muroi - The Silent Orders 4

Technique: Promptography on fine art paper
Image size: 45 x 30 cm
Edition: 3 + 1 AP
Year: 2025

The Silent Orders 4

In The Silent Orders 4, Taketo Muroi shifts the focus from cosmic phenomena to infrastructural machinery. While previous works introduced order as an abstract, almost metaphysical principle, here it appears as a functional object: a hybrid apparatus, simultaneously a tower, server, observation station, and monument.

The structure stands isolated in a desert landscape, far removed from any urban logic. Pipes, modules, and scaffolding appear precise but not frantic—as if this machine were responsible not for production, but for maintenance. The luminous, empty screen at its center is crucial: it displays nothing, transmits nothing, demands nothing. This very emptiness points to power through potential rather than information. Order is not communicated here, but presupposed.

Unlike The Silent Orders 3 , where the sign was embedded in nature, here order itself rises as an autonomous system. It needs no horizon, no reflection, no counterpart. The AI ​​translates order into a silent infrastructure: present, vigilant, but unobtrusive.

The Silent Orders 4 reads like a commentary on our present – ​​on systems that operate in the background, whose effectiveness lies not in spectacle, but in their permanent, barely perceptible existence. An order that doesn't need explaining because it's already at work.