information is indestructible (in mysterious ways, everything stays)
Online show, presented in collaboration with c4 Projects in Copenhagen, as part of Post-secular Reflections II - Feb. 2021
This work was created as a studio installation and also served as a pre-study for the work "No Time, No Mind".
All photos by Rickard Eklund.
information is indestructible (in mysterious ways, everything stays)
Materials: Bug zappers, mosquito net, laser cut acrylic glass, CNC-cut and burnt wood, x-ray prints, polyester resin, spray paint, a mirror and an inkjet print (edition of 10).
Symbols and objects: HDD drive, cassette tape, half a brain, 8-pointed star, Metatron’s cube, ammonite, Sierpiński triangles, Hillbert curves, orouboros and veilings.
For Post-secular Reflections II Rickard Eklund created a new series of sculptural works and graphics while thinking of the relationship between technologies of remembrance, 2D-representations of foreverness and how, or if, change is unchangeable.
Here are shapes of memory storages recreated in wood: a cassette tape, a hard disc drive and a brain, burnt to charcoal, but then partially surrounded by a translucent shell cast of it's former shape, like ashes encased in its ghost. Where the data would be stored in the devices, there are mirror surfaces, referencing the indestructible nature of information being embedded in the present, as proposed in theories of quantum mechanics. Forever excavatable, given all factors are present to process in reverse.
There's a bug zapper construction behind a dark shifting veil, that beckons with a deadly light, yet remains out of reach.
Seen are also shapes of infinity symbols and fractal patterns, an iconography gathered from different times and places, but with the potentials of endlessness in common.