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2025
Video installation · HDR color · loop 01 min 14 sec


Materials: with marble, wild plants, water, stainless steel
Dimensions: 150 × 150 × 350 mm

This video installation examines a double process: the systems humans build to control nature also reshape human perception and behaviour. Environmental domination and digital manipulation are presented not as separate issues, but as two effects of the same logic of control.

Marble, inverted wild grass, electrical cables, a stainless-steel basin and water form an artificially ordered environment. At its centre, three hollow marble blocks contain a video of a figure lying on a black sheet and endlessly scrolling through a smartphone. When the figure looks into the camera, their face becomes television static, suggesting an identity overwritten by a continuous flow of mediated images.

The submerged marble, upside-down grass and cables placed in water make natural materials appear displaced and controlled. Although the cables are inactive, they introduce a sense of risk. Viewers are invited to step into the water, entering the installation rather than observing it from outside.

The work reveals a contradiction: technology promises control over nature, yet the systems it creates also train human attention, behaviour and perception. Nature and the individual are transformed by the same structure, while the viewer becomes aware of their own participation in it.

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