Still Life
2025
various dimensions
textile fiber dust, glass bell jars
Residual textile fibres released through the mechanical process of drying are placed under glass bell jars, as if they were specimens, relics or precious objects.
Their identity remains ambiguous. It is unclear whether what we see is natural or artificial, organic or mineral, familiar or alien.
The title refers to a genre historically considered minor in art history.
The pieces are made of discarded material — textile fibre dust released by fabrics during the drying cycle.
Not intentionally modelled, their fibres are shaped by the hands of those who remove them from the filters, through gestures that are casual, practical and almost unconscious.
Almost weightless and ephemeral, the matter possesses a degree of cohesion that allows it to retain its delicate structure, yet requires careful handling: even slight pressure could cause the formations to disintegrate.
The negligible and the everyday reveal unexpected values, in a balance between irrelevance and preciousness, presence and dissolution, vulnerability and protection, the harmless and the unsettling.
The work invites a quality of perception that requires receptivity rather than analysis.
