ANACLE, 2020-24
steel, glass, computer, stepper motors, PHB powder, PHB bacteria, water, pumps, 350 x 130 x 130 cm
The PHB powder obtained in REFINERY is melted and extruded in the sculpture ANACLE. Using 3D printing technology, stalagmite-like sculptures grow within a glass bioreactor filled with liquid bacterial culture. Acting as sculptors, the bacteria metabolise the material, shape its form, and act simultaneously as “quarry” and “chisel”.
While Pythia, the oracle priestess of Delphi, once sat upon a tripod, in ANACLE this is inverted into a three-legged delta robot. In a twist on the ancient oracle, ANACLE speaks not orally, but anally.
steel, glass, computer, stepper motors, PHB powder, PHB bacteria, water, pumps, 350 x 130 x 130 cm
The PHB powder obtained in REFINERY is melted and extruded in the sculpture ANACLE. Using 3D printing technology, stalagmite-like sculptures grow within a glass bioreactor filled with liquid bacterial culture. Acting as sculptors, the bacteria metabolise the material, shape its form, and act simultaneously as “quarry” and “chisel”.
While Pythia, the oracle priestess of Delphi, once sat upon a tripod, in ANACLE this is inverted into a three-legged delta robot. In a twist on the ancient oracle, ANACLE speaks not orally, but anally.