“Energy knot” introspects the sense of an individual through awareness of body and space in relation to artificial constructs that surround it.
It is a site specific installation developed from seeing an architectural space as a “body”, “driven” by artificial energy and supported by industrial constructs. The starting point was observation of some urban constructs, presenting the plot of majestic, breath taking elements with deteriorated values and danger.
Coexistence of architectural structures, industrial machinery, transportation systems, human beings and nature in the urban environment.
The project explores the “machine” topography within the architecture itself. Various orders of artificial constructs and living energies are emphasized by the inner architectural infrastructure extended into the space: Room is understood and read as a body. The walls become anatomical textures. Shape of the installation appears as an extension and repetition of the inner buildings’ structure; an extension of the inner buildings’ body.

In the first version of the project "706" (ISCP studios, 08), the thin transparent foil has been “tailored” in an wide tubes system shape and directly applied on the air conditioning system on the rooms ceiling. The air from the ventilator circles through the tubes and fills in the room. The shape is vibrant from the air- energy strength and potent just like an organ in body.

“Like humans, machines emanate internal sounds”. Their noises have distinctive character – a personality. It is as if these were thinking machines. Each tone gets us closer to their inner workings and to the way they activate a building.”

The micro-macro element is emphasized by a TV screen showing a view captured from inside of one of the pipes. It shows the strong air circuit, and adds an important extend to the installation – the sound. It brings a new dimension in the perception of the piece, accentuating the introspection of the extroverted body/ organ.

The second set-up, in Domaine Pommery (Reims, 08) is built inside one of the long, tube-like cellar hallway, 30m underground. The installation fills in one of the dark tunnels. It appears unsuspected, while one's walking through the hall he can hear the sound - noise coming from the video, leading the viewer to anticipate and look for the installation. The installation “grows” inside of the hallway, being filed with air from a fan. The object “repeats” the shape of the architectural space itself (tunnels). Its “liveliness” is accentuated with the lights beneath the object, discovering various layers of the objects “body". textLuizaMargan,08