Primordial Soup

objects in concrete, pumps, colored water, plants

The installation explores resonance as a shared condition between inert matter and living systems, foregrounding their capacity to initiate, transmit, and respond to change. Composed of concrete elements, circulating colored water, pumps, and plants, it establishes a dynamic network in which mechanical impulses set processes in motion while organic responses continuously alter their course. Subtle material exchanges—flow, absorption, diffusion—unfold alongside larger systemic interactions, revealing how minimal interventions can propagate through complex environments. Oscillating between control and autonomy, stability and transformation, the work blurs distinctions between object and organism, presenting the installation not as a fixed form but as an evolving, responsive condition.

 

 

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