Detail, Setup III – Reallocation
Bonsai series
Bonsai – State of Form
The term ‘bonsai’ literally refers to a tree in a pot. Yet it is not the object itself that is decisive, but rather the process through which form emerges. It is not formed in a single moment, but develops through time, intervention and continuous adjustment.
Bonsai makes visible that this process cannot be accelerated. It requires slowness, attention and the ability to intervene without forcing it. Form is not a direct result, but a gradual development.
It brings together a tension between control and autonomy, between human ordering and a mode of growth that does not fully submit to it. Through reduction and limitation, a complex reality is made manageable,not in order to fix it, but to understand it temporarily.
These principles form the basis of the Bonsai series, in which form is understood as a temporary condition.
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Within the series, form is not seen as a fixed entity, but as something that can disappear, change or be reorganised. Within this language of form, actions and systems become visible, in which processes of control, limitation and appropriation coexist with adaptation and assimilation.
The works show how structures are imposed and subsequently relate to use, displacement and undermining. Residual forms and imprints function as traces of these actions.
Different states of form appear alongside one another: as afterform, as a vessel in which structure is absorbed, and as a configuration in which elements are repeatedly reorganised. Structure is not fixed, but emerges through position and relation.
Time plays an essential role. Processes of growth, displacement and decay are not represented directly, but become visible through the ways in which forms adapt, disintegrate or reassemble. In this way, the constructed remains in relation to the organic.
Detail, Setup III – Reallocation
Bonsai series
Bonsai – State of Form
The term ‘bonsai’ literally refers to a tree in a pot. Yet it is not the object itself that is decisive, but rather the process through which form emerges. It is not formed in a single moment, but develops through time, intervention and continuous adjustment.
Bonsai makes visible that this process cannot be accelerated. It requires slowness, attention and the ability to intervene without forcing it. Form is not a direct result, but a gradual development.
It brings together a tension between control and autonomy, between human ordering and a mode of growth that does not fully submit to it. Through reduction and limitation, a complex reality is made manageable,not in order to fix it, but to understand it temporarily.
These principles form the basis of the Bonsai series, in which form is understood as a temporary condition.
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Within the series, form is not seen as a fixed entity, but as something that can disappear, change or be reorganised. Within this language of form, actions and systems become visible, in which processes of control, limitation and appropriation coexist with adaptation and assimilation.
The works show how structures are imposed and subsequently relate to use, displacement and undermining. Residual forms and imprints function as traces of these actions.
Different states of form appear alongside one another: as afterform, as a vessel in which structure is absorbed, and as a configuration in which elements are repeatedly reorganised. Structure is not fixed, but emerges through position and relation.
Time plays an essential role. Processes of growth, displacement and decay are not represented directly, but become visible through the ways in which forms adapt, disintegrate or reassemble. In this way, the constructed remains in relation to the organic.