This work originated from a chance encounter with a small plaster sculpture in an artist’s studio. I became interested in what would happen if this simple object were repeated many times and stripped of its usual context.
Through repetition, what changed was not the object itself, but perception: the single figure lost its autonomy and became part of a rhythm. The rhythm formed a system, and the system became a unified collective body.
After the work was completed, I noticed unexpected associations emerging—something ancient, ritualistic, and physically tense. These meanings were not intentionally embedded in the work and appeared later in perception, both my own and that of viewers.
In a broader context, I relate this effect to the state of the world —a time of wars, forced migration, instability, and the erosion of stable identities. Amid geopolitical conflicts, climate crises, and the acceleration of information flows, collective experience becomes increasingly fragmented and unstable.
In this condition, repetition of a simple form begins to resemble not just a composition, but an image of a dispersed collective body—both whole and falling apart, without a single center.
The work explores the moment when an object ceases to be an object: how repetition transforms perception, how form begins to function as a living system, and how meanings arise that cannot be fully controlled or predetermined.
