2025
media object
size: 100x50x40
screens, metal frame, gypsum, plywood, polymer materials
media object
size: 100x50x40
screens, metal frame, gypsum, plywood, polymer materials
BEAST #4
(Lions)
series: Beyond the Ark
The Lion's vision diverges into two horizons; this expanded perception is akin to a stream of light that simultaneously illuminates and blinds. Information becomes air so saturated that breathing is no longer easy. The wider the field of vision, the harder it is to discern what is essential.
The creature's body and digital heads seem to tremble on the threshold between the living and the illusory. The sculpture becomes a sign of inevitable transformation, where the Lion, possessing two controlling organs, has surrendered control of them to the system.
The creature's body and digital heads seem to tremble on the threshold between the living and the illusory. The sculpture becomes a sign of inevitable transformation, where the Lion, possessing two controlling organs, has surrendered control of them to the system.
The Beyond the Ark series is the central project of recent years, born from the question: what happens to those who were not saved? The robotic-looking Beasts are the rejected—those who had to recreate themselves in order to continue. Their bodies are assembled from plaster, bones, hides, metal, and polymers—vulnerable remains doomed to decay. But on built-in screens their digital doubles pulse on a loop—like spirits no longer subject to circumstance. At the same time, without electricity, the “inside” of the Beasts disappears, becoming the invisible filling of forms so akin to what we call souls…
Each of the Beasts speaks of inequality in life and universal equality before death, of the irony of chosenness, and of the bitter necessity of evolving when you were not taken onto the ship.
Each of the Beasts speaks of inequality in life and universal equality before death, of the irony of chosenness, and of the bitter necessity of evolving when you were not taken onto the ship.
series:
Beyond the Ark
Beyond the Ark
