Withering
installation
cotton socks, bleach
dimensions variable
2021
This installation embodies an exploration of disintegration, seen as the process of separating elements over time. Starting with an industrial object of consumption, I initiate the gradual disappearance of its physical and linguistic boundaries. At the core lies the desire to emphasize the return to the indefinable realm of matter, tied to the natural cycle of decomposition.
This investigation begins with a collection of mismatched socks, sourced from the unconscious archives of relatives and friends. Instead of discarding these socks, they keep them, awaiting the reappearance of their pair. Once one sock is lost, the remaining one becomes useless, deprived of its original function, and starts to deteriorate in its semantic and figurative role.
I view mismatched socks as a metaphor for broader actions: walking together and then getting lost, standing up and self-asserting, weakening and wearing out until almost disappearing. These objects take on an identity of their own, transforming into something else independently.
The use of materials follows two main processes. The first involves the creation of consumer goods and the role of the consumer. The second involves my intervention to reclaim the object, also considering recycling, and its partial destruction. The mismatched socks are immersed in bleach, causing the loss of color, weakening, and breaking of fibers. New forms are generated, aligned on parallel lines, stripped of linguistic confinement and physical definition.
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