Persistence explores the enduring tension between nature and human presence — between divergent temporalities, between the organic and the artificial. The work functions as a sensitive, interactive ecosystem, capable of perceiving the presence of the viewer and responding in real time, revealing the precariousness of the balance between natural adaptation and anthropogenic structure.
Its formal composition is structured around a visual and conceptual dialectic: water — fluid, adaptive, mutable — represents the force of nature in transformation; while rigid, vertical elements reminiscent of urban landscapes evoke the imposed order of human architecture. A strobe lighting system intervenes in the temporal experience, arresting the fall of water droplets and suspending them in a state of apparent stillness — a moment that feels almost metaphysical.
Without stating it explicitly, the work alludes to ancient conflicts between worlds and cultures — confrontations that, over time, evolve into reciprocal influences. Within this symbolic landscape, opposition becomes coexistence, and confrontation gives way to relation. Even time itself bends, governed no longer by chronology but by perception and presence.
Material: metal, water, strobe lighting, IR-cam, projector
Dimensions: Variable
