
Assumption of a prey with eyes bigger than its stomach
is a living organism, layered in a doorway, an invitation to relinquish conviction and embrace uncertainty. It evokes a human hunger driven by desire, drawing the viewer toward a fragile and porous membrane: a layered bioplastic environment resting on a movable, multi-armed steel hinge. Acting as a foldable mirror, the structure has absorbed the surface of a ceramic mold, where the fragmented, floating body dissolves into the bioplastic. These unstable mirrors repeat and distort perception, generating a threshold, both physical and symbolic, reminiscent of the one crossed and inhabited by the mythological trickster archetype. Through the dispositif, a shifting assemblage of relations, the lens becomes both an optical trap and an organic parasite, inhabiting the architecture and generating fleeting glimpses of contemporary mythologies. The structure holds a tension between concealment and revelation, stillness and motion, allowing a new perceptual field to emerge at the blurred edge between vision and memory.
Assumption of a prey with eyes
bigger than its stomach
site specific installation,
KABK Graduation show 2025, Den Haag;
steel, agar bioplastic, pigments;
Ph. Arianna Cavalensi