NKONDI, 2025 is a project composed of a series of mining tools created from technological waste such as batteries, fragments of electronic boards, and cell phone casings. These elements bear witness to a process of exploitation that begins in the African subsoil and ends in our everyday devices. Coltan, a rare and indispensable mineral used… Continua a leggere NKONDI
“Natura Posthuma” — Optical Fiber Nest by Fabio Weik, 2025 Optical-fiber kamikaze drones are employed in warfare to transmit data and deliver destructive attacks with bombs. Yet, the remote-control signals are often disrupted. The thin cables that connect them—stretching over 30 kilometers—are frequently scattered across fields, eventually becoming entangled with the natural landscape. Some birds, unaware of their origin, use these remnants to build their nests. A relic of death, serving as protection for life. The result is a hybrid form that exposes the short circuit between nature and war, life and pollution. It belongs to an archaeology of the present, where technological debris is not merely a trace but a living substance infiltrating the biological cycle. It materializes the notion of post-nature, in which the organic and the inorganic collapse into a single form.
BURQA EX CARNE (from the series Human Fragility) Resin and ballistic gel sculpture, approx. 165 cm Anthropomorphic figure covered by a drapery recalling the form of a burqa. The surface, made of resin and ballistic gel, simulates the texture of flesh. The work belongs to the Human Fragility series, focused on the relationship between body, identity and social vulnerability.
In AssemblA, the video is not documentation but a living substance, a performative organism born under constraint.Filmed in 2020, at the height of the pandemic in Brescia, one of the Italian areas most severely affected by COVID-19, the work becomes an act of visual and anthropological resistance. In a city where ambulance sirens dictated the… Continua a leggere ASSEMBLA PROJECT by Fabio Weik
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