Transient Terrain
Madrid, Spain 2024
(50kg recycled aluminium)
0,9x4x10m
Photo by Pilar Moneo
The piece embodies the paradoxes of destruction and creation, desolation and shelter. Cast from 50 kilograms of recycled aluminum, this piece unfolds as a metal topography, where the surface mimics an alien landscape, both inviting and forbidding. It evokes lava, flowing and freezing in time to create a terrain that is at once a testament to fluidity and permanence. The choice of aluminum, a material born from the earth, then discarded only to be reborn in fire, speaks to cycles of consumption and rebirth. This landscape is not benign. It whispers tales of toxic infertility, of lands scarred by human touch, yet it also holds spaces of refuge— caves and crevices that offer shelter in the midst of desolation.
