AXIS MUNDI

The installation emerges from a fragile gesture: small branches intertwined and held together by thin metal wires, suspended in space like precarious ornaments. These light structures evoke imbalance and instability, a visual code that recalls ancient practices connected to sacred trees.

In Siberian cultures such as the Evenki, Yakuts, and Sel’kup, the shamanic tree embodied the axis mundi, the bridge between the upper, middle, and lower worlds. Branches became instruments of healing, supports for the soul’s journey, conductors of invisible energies. Similarly, across Europe and the Middle East, the act of tying cloths or hammering nails into sacred trees transferred misfortune to the wood, releasing the one who performed the ritual.

Here the suspended branches take on a contemporary ritual meaning: fragments of sacred trees, broken and recomposed, points of connection between fragility and resilience. The metal wire that joins them with subtle curves does not fully stabilize but rather reveals their precariousness. The work stages a spiritual landscape of temporary balances, suspensions, and attempts to hold onto what inevitably slips away.

It is a visual rite that speaks of healing and loss, of how body and spirit continuously search for a point of support between opposing forces.

Variable installation, Each structure: approx. 40–70 cm diameter