2025
Raspberry Pi artefact (“block”), generative system (reaction–diffusion), single-channel video (1’ loop), xerographic prints
Viata care nu (mai) e [inca] (En: Life that is not (yet) [anymore]) extends the Brâncușian gesture of “revealing form” into the conditions of contemporary digital materiality, embodied here by a Raspberry Pi 3.
Treated as a present-day block of stone, the Pi does not conceal a singular ideal form but a field of potentialities — a multiplication of the “Column” as species rather than object.
The video presents a single moment of revelation: from within this digital “block” emerges a vertical, unstable form, shaped both by the internal variability of the material (randomness) and by an ascensional sculptural bias. The form is not generated but discovered, in a partnership between artist and material, extending the Brâncușian logic of sculpture as a negotiation between intention and the inherent life of matter.
In the installation, the same Pi appears inert, placed beside the monitor that displays its past revelation. The object remains in a state of superposition — “no longer,” “not yet,” and “still” — carrying within it the forms that could have appeared and those that never will.
The xerographic prints operate as fossils of alternate possibilities, expanding the dialogue with Brâncuși’s iterative studio practice.
Rather than imitating form, the work reactivates process: revelation, verticality as becoming, sculpture as an encounter between material and potential under the conditions of contemporary digital materiality.
Exhibited:
National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
„Boîte, Box, Brâncuși”, 19.02 – 10.05.2026
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