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CONTINUUM

2025

 

 

Continuum explores circularity as a principle of organization and transformation. The series examines the relationships between permanence and change, equilibrium and instability, origin and dissolution, through structures that challenge the notion of an absolute beginning or end.

Continuous curves, folds, and geometries that turn back upon themselves establish a language of recurrence and variation. Each form appears to follow an internal order, a logic that persists even as its trajectories diverge. Repetition introduces subtle differences, revealing a tension between structural regularity and the changing nature of what constitutes it.

Marble and oxidized steel articulate distinct temporalities within a single body. The geological permanence of stone contrasts with the gradual transformation of metal, while the surface registers processes that elude the apparent stability of form. Matter thus retains the traces of its own transformation.

In dialogue with complex systems, Continuum situates stability within an ever-provisional equilibrium, sustained by relationships in constant reconfiguration. The works evoke a circularity in which life and death, creation and dissolution, unfold without definitive boundaries. Each return carries the possibility of a new configuration; each ending persists, in some way, within what begins.

Expansion 1, 2 & 3 

Italian Quartz and steel   //  55 × 100 cm

        

        

        

        

Balance

Italian Quartz and steel //  55 × 80  cm

        

        

Perpetual Balance [Torus]

Italian Quartz and steel //  72 × 114  cm

        

        

Perpetual Balance [Oxide]

Oxide over steel //  78 × 124 cm

        

        

Expansion [Oxide]

Oxide over steel //  57 × 103 cm

        

        

Turbulence [Oxide]

Oxide over steel //  72 × 113 cm