Cycle

The Cycle project concentrates reflections on the metabolism of technological reproduction and its connection with the processes of life, dying and rebirth.

The main material of the sculpture is aluminium — the most common metal and the third most common element of the earth's crust, which includes natural and synthetic. Like other metals, aluminium is recycled, which makes its life cycle continuous and endless. Aluminium is called "dead metal" — unlike other elements, it does not participate in the metabolism of any living creature on the planet. At the same time, aluminium is actively involved in the metabolism of technological processes and the industrial cycle, which gives rise to the paradox of infinite life and the rebirth of "dead" matter.

The project focuses not so much on working with the material as such, but rather captures changes in states and considers the concept of deformation through topologies of successive impacts and experiments. Can the paradoxical gap between the living and the inanimate open a new portal for speculative scenarios of the future?