SCAPES
50x50x15cm, plexiglass, metal.
Scapes is a series of kinetic landscape sculptures that emerged from a broader exploration of the notion of the “future”, approached both through the lens of space-time and through personal imaginaries of that temporality.
The series draws on the visual language of historical cosmic maps, whose study reveals how human understandings of space-time have evolved across the ages, and pachinko, a type of Japanese gambling machine used here as a metaphor for subjective relationships to the future.
The sculptures connect landscapes of the mind and of the cosmos through two groups of acrylic layers: one th
at can be manipulated by the vie
wer, and one that remains frozen. This contrast reflects the tension between fluid personal ideas of the future and the fixed dominant narratives of progress and survival shaped by tech-moguls and used to justify a renewed space race.
SCAPE I
SCAPE II
SCAPE III
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