Rock-Chain

Rock-Chain is both sculpture and instrument. Within a construction of articulated metal arms, displays are held in place by metal clamps, almost like specimens. Each display shows a rotating stone and above every screen, a magnifying lens is installed, forming an apparatus reminiscent of a laboratory setup.

What seems like a scientific instrument for examination could, in fact, also be described as such. With this instrument, the viewer studies real objects from nature - geology that actually exists, preserved through 3D scans.

The virtual rocks are extensions of their natural selves. Mesmerizingly rotating in endless continuation, they come with enhanced features: arrays of micro-textures, sharper edges, or crystalline inclusions that seem to glow from within.

These digitized fragments of nature, combined with an analogue examination through magnifying lenses, make the boundaries between simulation and reality blur. What emerges is an in-between space - a form of simulated nature.

One of the digital rocks was acquired by the Centre Pompidou in Paris for its permanent collection of NFT’s.