Archaeology of Space

Archaeology of Space suspends a vortex above the viewer, turning the act of looking into a bodily orientation towards the sky. The eye follows a movement that seems to recede into the work while the body remains beneath it. This relationship gives the form a scale beyond its dimensions: it becomes something encountered overhead, in the position of an atmosphere.

The upward gaze recalls the illusionistic ceilings of the Baroque and the expansive painted skies of Tiepolo, where architecture appeared to open onto another order of space. Such works placed the viewer beneath visions of the infinite. Read alongside that tradition, Archaeology of Space brings the desire to look beyond the immediate world into contact with turbulence, instability and change. A natural force takes the place of a celestial vision.

The title proposes an archaeology of something usually considered intangible. Archaeology reads the past through material strata; this work gives space a layered structure through which the eye can travel. Its suspended motion brings different times together: the fleeting life of an atmospheric event, the still duration of the sculpture and the time spent looking. Space becomes a subject with its own depth and internal relations, something to explore through the body as well as the eye.