There is a human tendency to create codes that regulate, define, or that can con…
There is a human tendency to create codes that regulate, define, or that can contain and limit the complexity of the world; there is a need to create systems and laws that give meaning to the universe. However, the closer we get, the more complex and elusive reality appears to us. There is always a fissure, a failure, a knowledge that cannot be achieved. My work represents this gap. It is a kind of organic crack, as if there were a universal order that we can barely understand.
This work arises from my research project Metamorphosis. It’s a volumetric adaptation of the method that I developed during my doctoral thesis to generate an infinite number of geometric figures based on the same frequency. It is a search for all the possibilities of rotation of a segmented line in a grid plane, based on arithmetic permutations, to generate all possible figures that can be assembled towards infinity.
Gap of Possibilities is a series of 4 pieces, made of terracotta, built from the same segmented line and superimposed forming 16 columns. A total of 128 pieces rotated randomly in all directions except in one of the facets where 4 columns are aligned in an orderly and conscious way, opening a gap in the installation.
Geometric language is still a kind of semantic path, a universal, cosmic metalanguage. Where it is the most present is in Islamic architecture, which manifests itself to the world in a deeply enigmatic way, with seemingly almost indecipherable geometries, as if they hid a hidden and sacred knowledge. This is why I wanted to transfer my research from the plane to the volume in the form of columns, an approach to this idea of architecture as a container and revealer of a culture or knowledge.
“IF YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT US, EXAMINE OUR BUILDINGS”
Ancient proverb, Samarkand Gate Inscription.
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