moving matter

Abstract

Moving matter: that is what I do when I am in the workshop. I interact with physical matter, changing its shape, properties, and dimensions. But my body is moving matter as well. The steel I am working with makes me move, it makes me react to its qualities and behavior. The idea that the matter around us is shaped by me as well as it shapes me leads to a different relation with the world we live in. It makes me question my perception of the world of materials as something dead and static, separate from us as humans. I want to investigate this question in my work, in the process as well as in the objects. I will explore if I can perceive the matter I work with as sensitive, delicate, and alive. For that reason, I work with kinetic sculpture, moving matter.