Functional Mutations
These sculptures originate from the observation of humble, leftover materials—those often tied to construction, transience, and manual labor. Concrete, metal rods, wood: raw elements, each bearing a precise function, are here stripped of their original role. They do not support, contain, or construct. They bend, tilt, assemble into forms that seem to suggest new uses, new postures.
Function, in this context, is not denied but transformed. The materials carry within themselves the memory of what they were meant to do—to support, to hold, to build—but that memory is fractured. A perceptual short-circuit emerges: the eye recognizes a structural element, yet the body perceives instability, uncertainty, fragility.
The work becomes an ambiguous device, somewhere between ruin and project. The forms are minimal, almost like signals or traces of something that might still become. The sculptural language is stark, yet charged with tension—between intention and failure, between potential and loss.
These are architectural bodies that have shed their skin, their function, and their direction. As objects that have either survived an era or come from an uncertain future, they question what remains, and how we might now reinterpret the meaning of building.