This video installation articulates the human infringement upon the natural environment and mirrors how, in contemporary society, the individual is increasingly manipulated by digital media and domesticated by systemic structures—gradually losing the ability to perceive reality in its unfiltered form. 

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The installation weaves together marble, wild grass, electric cables, stainless steel containers, and water to construct a sensorially charged and symbolically dense environment. At its core, three marble blocks are stacked and hollowed out at the center, housing a video that transforms the sculptural form into both a literal and conceptual void. This cavity echoes Plato’s allegory of the cave—a prison of perception—as well as a petri dish for the cultivation of consumerist subjectivity. In the video, a figure lies on a black bedsheet, endlessly scrolling on a smartphone. At the moment they look into the camera, their face dissolves into TV static—a brief yet striking mutation that captures the loss of identity in the digital age, and the way individuals are overwritten by relentless streams of mediated content.

 

Marble, a material historically loaded with aesthetic and political symbolism, is here submerged in an industrial basin filled with water. This gesture not only reflects the taming of nature by human systems, but also preserves a certain tension—a silent resistance. The wild grass, deliberately inverted, adopts an "anti-natural" posture that induces discomfort and disorientation, thereby questioning our ingrained ecological logic and pointing to the reconstruction of natural order under industrial paradigms. Meanwhile, electric cables soaked in water serve as a dual symbol of danger and control. Though non-functional, their presence is charged with threat, implicating the viewer in a space of latent tension. The audience is invited to step into the water—becoming participants rather than passive observers—thus entering a sensorial encounter with the paradox of power: the more we attempt to conquer nature through technological means, the more we reveal our own vulnerability and complicity within a dual alienation process—where both nature and the human subject are tamed by the systems we ourselves have created.