Beyond (2025)

Sculpture / concrete, asphalt, polyester, motors, plaster boards, kamera / 180 x 33 x 36 cm

The sculpture emerged as an iteration and synthesis of two previous projects, which were based on an exploration of damage and restoration as natural and ontological forces that shape the world and are intertwined. In the project »Damage and Restoration«, in which I used the process of cross-sectioning to create a connection between damaged engine parts and animal bones, and in the project »What Would the World Be Like If Restoration Were Not Necessary?« I used digital media, functioning as an environment where time is frozen, to examine damage as a process of preserving existence through transformation.

To connect the two projects I installed a video camera onto the sculpture. I transferred the virtual space, generated as a Google Earth Street View, made possible by modern computers, onto a retro video camera in the form of a video. In doing so, I speculatively updated the camera through a process I called “hyper-restoration,” in which the camera was intended to acquire the capabilities of modern computers and thus become a contemporary piece of technology. At the exhibition, however, it was not separated from its potential for use. Viewers could operate it, record videos, and even delete them. I conceived this process of intervention as a form of disruption through which viewers could themselves become part of the artwork, thereby blurring the boundaries between the viewer and the artwork.