My graduation work is a collection of minimalistic gestures on various polymers, composites and alloys, with an emphasis on materials that contradict natural rhythms through engineering, such as memory foam or galvanized steel, as well as materials developed into parodies of their more valuable, intricate counterparts; plexiglass, MDF.

Using a predefined text format and the context of the exhibition itself, I am interested in parallelism and translations performed in real time, as objects get paired up with their adjacent specification and start to mirror each other to the point of both redundancy and revelation.

This project, alongside my thesis, explores the claim that we navigate everyday life mostly surrounded by symbols or stand-ins for a distant, more genuine material reality. Relying on various degrees of abstraction, from language, image or drawing to computation or industrial manufacture, we actively participate in (re)producing a world with little awareness of what gets filtered, distorted or even completely overwritten.

1) installation overview; in the center a concrete footing and nylon strings define the 1:1 wireframe of a column (18 x 18 x 362 cm)


2) close-up, acrylic frame laser-engraved with fingerprints, next to adjacent specification typeset to mimic the displacement of the engravings (50 x 70 cm)


3) close-up, gabion lined with steel mesh and filled with EPS packing peanuts (20 x 20 x 100 cm)


4) close-up, MDF frame backing with agglomeration of steel D-rings for hanging (50 x 70cm)


5) close-up, specification for steel typeset to reveal the geological origin of iron ore, if one regards the label upside down