19 Feb - 13 Mar 16
Installation 1
A clock is condemned to only one function – to be an intermediary between time and people. The nature of a clock is to show time in an exact and steady advancement; and if we take this away we devoid the clock of its prime function and the object is no longer a clock. In this installation the above-mentioned nature of the clock is used against itself.
Several clocks are attached to the ceiling with spools fixed to the hour arrows of the clocks. These spools turn 720 degrees every 24 hours along with the clock handle, and slowly roll up the thread around. When all of the thread is rolled up, the pin holding the clock will be pulled which will cause the clock to fall from the ceiling and break.
The fate of the clock is to die because of its sole nature of being a clock. As time will pass the clocks fixed to the ceiling will fall down and break one by one and at the end of the exhibition none of the clocks remains on the ceiling.
Installation 2
We are all going to leave this world one day. There are things which are unpleasant for almost everybody to think about such as the truth that everybody we know and love is eventually going to die one day; or that we will probably face our parents and grandparents pass away some day in future. These truths are always around but we usually try to chase these thoughts away.
The installation muses on the subject of loss and consists of a tree in the center with several portraits made of hollow plaster forms hung from its branches. Each of the portraits are hung with metal wires that go through small glass pipes. These pipes are sealed on both ends and contains exact amount of acid that is needed to corrode the metal wire within a time period between 1 to 3 weeks. When the acid weakens the metal wire to the level it can't handle the weight of the portrait, the wire breaks and causes the portrait to fall and break into pieces.
In the end all the portraits will be laying on the ground in pieces. This installation is a small reminder for us to appreciate the presence of our loved ones while we all have the opportunity to still be together.
Installation 3
Sunlight is a crucial source of life for plants; they usually grow towards the light source. But what if this love destroys them in the end?
The installation is made of three plants placed into boxes with hinged covers made of Plexiglas. There is a lamp with different illumination fixed over each of the boxes. As the plant grows toward the light, it pushes the coversaway, opening its way up. When the cover opens up to a certain point, a mechanism will be triggered, which will open the bottom lid and cause the plant to fall down from the box to the ground and inevitably break.
The brighter the light at the top, the faster it kills the plant.
Installation 4
The incandescent light bulbs convert less than 5% of the energy they use into visible light; remaining energy is converted into heat. In this installation, three lamps of different voltages are placed inside separate boxes.
Over each of the lamps there is a container filled with water that weighs the same as the two hammers fixed on each side of the scales. During the exhibition, the heat of the lamps will slowly steam the water away. This process will eventually trigger the mechanism which will release two hammers from each side breaking the lamp.
The brighter the lamp is, the faster it gets crashed.
Installation 5
Nothing is eternal; rocks and mountains, continents, planets and even atoms will all be gone one day. Everything is slowly washed away by the passage of time.The next work consists of a symbolic bust of a human made of hardened sand placed in a box.
A fan is built into the structure of the box so that the spinner creates an artificial wind. The friction swirls the sand against the sculpture and gradually begins to sand it away.
The fan will be working non-stop till the end of the exhibition until there is nothing left from the sculpture, as it will be turned back into sand.
Installation 6
The humankind always dreams of immortality. We carve our names on stones as testaments of our existence, when these rocks turn into the same dust as their inscribers. For we were made from dust, and to dust we shall return.
This work consists of a big black board mounted onto the wall. On this board a poem by Omar Khayyam is written using naphthalene. Naphthalene is a chemical substance that slowly evaporates from solid form into gas through time. It will take around 5 to 6 weeks for the poem to disappear.