UFO CRASH
group exhibition at @lusvardiart


Flavio Degen, Aun Helden, Natalia Korotyaeva, Jill Kiddon, Seungwoo Park, Alessandro Rauschmann
curated by Alessandro Rauschmann
12.09.25 – 01.11.25


untitled (Protocol_01-29)
2025
Steel, cables, copper wires, acrylic glass tubes, saline solution, silicone, graphite


„untitled (Protocol_01-29)“ stages a system in transition. Steel poles and electrical wires form a circuit that is less a conduit of energy than a site of its gradual reconfiguration, where industrial material transitions toward a mineral condition.
Through electrochemical reactions the structure corrodes externally, releasing a saline solution that seeps from the poles and leaves crystalline residues behind - while in the center, copper has diminished at one end of the circuit and reappears as crystalline growth at the other.
The work proposes an image of restitution: corrosion emphasizes entropy, the intrinsic movement of materials toward disorder and disintegration — while crystallization reveals the inherent structuring tendencies of matter itself. As the system self-consumes, energy is not dissipated but converted, illuminating the slow regression of engineered material to its elemental state.