Series of "Postmodern Ground"
Concrete, saw dust mix, found objects
2025-26
This work begins with a tension: the realization that technological civilization is both the condition of our survival and the architecture of our alienation. Technology extends our capacities, yet it reorganizes our desires; it offers efficiency, also it narrows the horizons of what we can imagine.
Following Herbert Marcuse’s critique of technological rationality, I am drawn to the ways in which progress becomes indistinguishable from exhaustion: how the same structures that build our world also hollow it out from within. In this sense, technology is not merely an external machine but a field of forces that shapes the human body, redirects attention, and redefines what counts as reality.
In this work, technology is not understood as machinery or digital devices, but as a mode of rationality. Following Herbert Marcuse, I consider technology as a system that organizes matter, bodies, and space according to efficiency, control, and function. It is a way of thinking embedded in materials and structures, shaping how civilization is built and how human life is managed. Rather than describing technological objects, my installation examines the residues of this logic: where systems persist without purpose, and materials remain after meaning has been exhausted.
The materials I work with: concrete, saw dust, and industrial remnants, carry the weight of this contradiction. They are the fragments of a civilization that constructs itself through extraction, compression, and repetition. Yet within these heavy and inert materials, I search for traces of vulnerability: fractures, emptiness, surfaces that once held perfection or pressure. What emerges is neither ruin nor monument, but a liminal form that swings between the mechanical and the organic.
This installation is an attempt to inhabit that in-between space. It asks how we might position ourselves within a system that both sustains and overwhelms us. It does not seek resolution, but a balance: a way of noticing the subtle negotiations between the body and the structures that surround it.
If balance exists, it is not a stable state but a continuous practice: an ongoing effort to remain human within a world increasingly defined by what is not.