Till the world ends

(KEEP ON DANCING, B. Spears)

The sculptures in the Till The World Ends series evoke spectral apparitions – biomorphic, humanoid figures, almost dancing, seemingly floating at the edge of our world.

Suspended in an intermediate state, they materialize those liminal spaces where matter appears to waver between presence and absence, shifting with the play of light and reflection. Their organic curves echo the strangeness, fluidity, and poetry of surrealist and symbolist artists like Yves Tanguy and Léon Spilliaert.

The hydroforming technique plays a central role in this process. Under water pressure, steel sheets transform into dynamic three-dimensional volumes. This process, with its inherent unpredictability, allows water to act as an agent of transformation, imprinting nearly living curves onto the metal. The resulting sculptures embody a tension between technical mastery and spontaneity, symbolizing the passage from a latent state to an embodied form.

In this context, water is not merely a technical tool; it is a bridge between worlds—the tangible and intangible, material and spiritual. It acts as a symbolic force, recalling its ancestral role as a link between the world of the living and the spirit realm. The reflective surfaces of the sculptures play with light and shadow; like the shimmering reflections of a river, they become “distorting mirrors,” spaces where viewers perceive both their own reflection and an altered vision of reality.

2023