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Mineral Genesis: A Study on the Emergence of Matter

Installation

Year 2026

Materials: iron, metal, magnets

Various sizes

 

This series is part of a practical investigation into the formation of matter from a vacuum, understood not as a metaphor, but as an observable physical phenomenon. Through the interaction between iron powder and magnets on metallic surfaces, the behaviors of attraction, organization, and dispersion of the material are analyzed, with the aim of understanding the self-structuring of matter under unstable conditions. What did not exist before emerges. The process is conceived as a small-scale model of mineral origin, in which iron behaves as the primary substance of condensation. The magnetic field acts as an invisible force that orders the initial chaos, suggesting an analogy between the laws of physics and the ontological dynamics of being: how that which has no form acquires structure, how the inert becomes active. The research addresses the notion of the ephemeral in matter, observing how certain conglomerates emerge temporarily only to dissolve later. This transience prompts reflection on matter as a process, not a fixed state: a continuous flow between appearance and disappearance, between energy and structure. From a philosophical perspective, the work is situated at the intersection of phenomenological aesthetics and materialist ontology, exploring how the perceptible can be evidence of the becoming of reality.

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