Status Materiae transforms restored claw machines into critical devices where desire, violence, memory, and control collide. Earth, books, simulated flesh, glass, smoke, and haptic sound form stratified environments of pressure and loss. Each gesture by the viewer alters the system, exposing how power turns bodies, perception, and survival into stakes.
This project reproduces in scale a destroyed urban landscape. A suspended IV bag slowly releases a red liquid resembling blood. The progressive dripping physically erodes the model beneath, built with fragile materials such as sand and PVC. The intervention is part of a series dedicated to airstrikes carried out on Gaza, each titled after the official names of Israeli military operations. Every installation is visible only once. At the end, all that remains is a video document, presented in the following exhibition. PVC, sand, cement, synthetic blood pigment, programmed drip-release mechanism Site specific self-destructive installation Variable duration (from 72 to 120 hours) Disintegration becomes language. Blood functions as a device. The project vanishes to remain in memory.
FABIO WEIK 