medusa

medusa

2026 Brussels - Controller, led lamps

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Medusa is a sculpture.

Medusa is a kinetic sculpture of seven LED propeller-fans (gadgets normally used to spin advertising slogans into the air) rewired to display speculative flora and arrayed around a single Arduino, giving the piece the silhouette of a drone whose own thrust is too feeble to lift it. Suspended from the ceiling, it hovers only in suggestion: machines writing each other letters of light, robots sending each other flowers, or a drone trying its hand at poetry.

The work takes its bearings from Gramsci(1930): “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.” Medusa is one such symptom: many-headed, hovering, undecided, the future still unsettled across her faces.