Cycle, 2018

kinetic object

In Cycle, a blank canvas is marked not by colour to create a painting, but by movement to create a rhythm. An electro-mechanical system hidden behind the surface draws circles, over and over again, like a clock whose indications are missing.

While clocks represent the cycle of transition between day and night, our perception of time is one-directionally linear. Once a moment has passed, we can never go back to it. As time passes, we are taught to always aim to move forward, to make the next moment better than the previous one. Or at least that's how progress is defined in capitalist terms. It is synonymous with more - more production, more consumption, more profit. But the repercussions of capitalist progress are hardly taken into account - more pollution, more waste, more environmental destruction, more social inequalities.

So, does our perception change when we redefine progress not as a straight line but as a circle that brings back multi-layered possibilities? Or is progress simply a cycle that moves at different paces to respond to different circumstances?

Exhibition:

Art Theorema - Imago Mundi Highlights, 2018
Permanent Collection - Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy