Machine
of loving
grace
Synthetic monitoring organism
//installation
2026
Recycled industrial materials
/kinetic
/electronic system
A sample of an ecosystem is placed at the heart of a large-scale artificial structure designed to maintain its living conditions. Suspended in space, the structure combines recycled materials and control systems, forming an autonomous monitoring unit.
Taken from a natural space on the outskirts of the exhibition site, the sample retains sufficient organic density to allow certain living interactions to continue. The device attempts to sustain its equilibrium by regulating several parameters - humidity, light, circulation - according to an automated protocol.
As the installation progresses over time, these mechanisms come into conflict with the dynamics they seek to sustain. The system persists, but gradually produces unstable conditions where the maintenance of its integrity and its alteration coexist.
The work is situated in this interval : a space where the attempt at preservation engages its own limit, and where any form of conservation already implies a transformation.
Machine of loving grace
.
Synthetic monitoring organism
// installation
2026
Recycled industrial materials
/kinetic
/electronic system
A sample of an ecosystem is placed at the heart of a large-scale artificial structure designed to maintain its living conditions. Suspended in space, the structure combines recycled materials and control systems, forming an autonomous monitoring unit.
Taken from a natural space on the outskirts of the exhibition site, the sample retains sufficient organic density to allow certain living interactions to continue. The device attempts to sustain its equilibrium by regulating several parameters - humidity, light, circulation - according to an automated protocol.
As the installation progresses over time, these mechanisms come into conflict with the dynamics they seek to sustain. The system persists, but gradually produces unstable conditions where the maintenance of its integrity and its alteration coexist.
The work is situated in this interval : a space where the attempt at preservation engages its own limit, and where any form of conservation already implies a transformation.
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