Canal, installation view, 2024

Wax, building materials, metal, copper, found objects, water pump
dimensions variable

This work was created in a former eyeglass factory in London. Over the past century, the building has served as an eyeglass factory, a newspaper office, a health business, and a glass factory, repeatedly operating and closing under the forces of industrialization and capitalism. The traces of this history have become embedded in the building itself. I wanted to draw a parallel between my living body and the building’s ‘body,’ which carries layers of social and historical flows. In particular, I sought to use the flow of water essential to the human body as a metaphor for the building’s vitality.

The site-specific installation features a circulating water system: running tap water flows through wax objects, fills vessels connected by tubes, and returns to the sink. This circulation mirrors the human body while tracing the building’s historical and temporal flows. By connecting material, architecture, and movement, the work creates a metaphorical flow that embodies both physical and temporal dynamics within the space.

more details: https://mappingbeyondsight.github.io/exhibition/