Installation view, Sometimes I just like to hear myself talk, Spazio in Situ in collaboration with MACRO, Rome, Italy. Photo Marco De Rosa.
Concrete and terracotta casts of office chair wheels, marble dust, sand, steel cables, aluminium, screws, electrical clamps, electrical cables, electric motor, acrylic, broken earphones, mixed media. Variable dimensions, variable shape.
Sabotage of a working day explores the relationships between bodies, workplace tools and functionality. The sculpture is created through multiple casts of office chair wheels, which are reproduced in ceramic and cement-based resins.
In Sabotage of a working day, the wheels of ergonomic office chairs, as if by magic — or in protest — assume the appearance of a cracked machine or a perfect new non-functional body. A giant mechanical plant: blooming and invasive, descending from the ceiling and spreading into the corners and walls.
Investigating the sculptural potential of everyday objects, the chair wheel undergoes a process of transformation and de-functionalization, shifting from a common, efficiently designed object to the sculptural matrix of a chaotic, living body.
Its sculptural materiality originates from a serial production process that replicates the industrial manufacturing of the original object but gains life through the wear and gradual destruction of the moulds during continuous replication — leading to errors and deformations. This process-based approach challenges the rationality of large-scale production. The resulting forms are then bound together by electrical wires, USB cables, and steel cords, mixed with other found materials.
Sabotage of a working day is conceived as a modular sculpture capable of adapting its form and scale in direct response to the spatial, structural, and architectural conditions of the exhibition context.
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