“fails is a series of sculptures that cheerfully reveals the fragility, disintegration, and feeling of superficiality that pervades our lived reality. Based on the simulation models of 3D scans, a digital phenomenon is translated into physical space. Like the virtual scan—freed from the necessity of gravity—the fragmented space floats across the exhibition space.
Materials are reduced to their surfaces: sanded, gutted, yet still real. That which usually determines their function recedes; what remains visible is a filigree layer that, in an unsettling way, exposes both the material and the fragility of our embodied environment. Glitches arise where materials actually meet, but now merge into one another and boundaries become unclear.”
– Tobias John