Konj, rekonstruiran / Horse, reconstructed (2025)
Instalacija / odpadni najdeni del stroja, jeklo, montažna pena
Installation / Found machine part, steel, expanding foam / 100 x 130 x 45 cm
(SLO)
Konj, rekonstruiran(2025) je stransko delo, ustvarjeno za instalacijo Zmrzovalnik, kot razstavni prostor (2025)
Delo temelji na konceptu spekulativne fosilizacije, začetem v delu Poškodba in obnova(2024). Če je tam po principu predelave in nepredelave veljalo, da so poškodovani motorji stroja ekvivalentni kostem v organizmih in zato paralelni fosilom v sedimentnih kamninah se je zaradi izdelovanja fosila v zmrzovalniškem muzeju potrebno zgledovati po ledenodobni fosilizaciji. Če so se v delu Poškodba in obnova motorji rezali, da so postali (pre)poškodovani in s tem enakovredni kostem je potrebno stroj v delu Zmrzovalnik, kot razstavni prostor rekonstruirati, saj je za ledenodobne fosile značilno ohranjanje mehkih tkiv telesa.
Rekonstrukcija se je začela z misterioznim notranjim delom stroja. Po najdbi drobnih kolesc na njegovi spodnji strani sem proces preusmerila v ustvarjanje kinetične strukture, katero je poganjal 3D-tiskan ročaj. Glede na prisotnost drobnih krtačk sem dodala še eno os po kateri so krtačke ob premikanju raznašale protikorozijsko tekočino.
Rekonstrukcija se je nadaljevala v iskanju izvora misterioznega stroja. Iz kje ta izhaja ni še danes popolnoma jasno, pomembno je bilo, da gre za notranji - delovni del stroja. Ker je konj žival, največkrat uporabljena za delo v zgodovini človeštva in je prepoznan, kot del megafavne ledene dobe se je rekonstrukcija usmerila v podobo konja. Zadnja faza rekonstrukcije se je zgledovala po pojavu težnje po realističnem upodabljanju živalskih igrač, ki se je razvijala vzporedno z industrializacijo, ko so živali začele iz mest izginjati na obrobja in vasi.
(ENG)
Horse, reconstructed is a side work produced for installation Refrigerator as Exhibition Space (2025).
The work is based on the concept of speculative fossilization, initiated in the work Damage and Restoration (2024). If, according to the principle of processing and non-processing, damaged machine engines were considered equivalent to bones in organisms and therefore parallel to fossils in sedimentary rocks, then the creation of fossils in the freezer museum requires following the example of Ice Age fossilization. If, in the work Damage and Restoration, the engines were cut so that they became (over)damaged and thus equivalent to bones, it is necessary to reconstruct the machine in the work Freezer as an exhibition space, since Ice Age fossils are characterized by the preservation of soft body tissues.
The reconstruction began with the mysterious inner workings of the machine. After finding small wheels on its underside, I redirected the process to create a kinetic structure driven by a 3D-printed handle. Given the presence of small brushes, I added another axis along which the brushes spread an anti-corrosion liquid as they moved.
The reconstruction continued in search of the origin of the mysterious machine. Its origin is still not entirely clear today, but what is important is that it is an internal working part of the machine. Since the horse is the animal most commonly used for work throughout human history and is recognized as part of the Ice Age megafauna, the reconstruction focused on the image of a horse. The final phase of the reconstruction was inspired by the trend toward realistic depictions of animal toys, which developed in parallel with industrialization, when animals began to disappear from cities to the suburbs and villages.
