On Losing Meaning

On Losing Meaning, 2021. This sculptural, robotic work is a representation of a word that is searching for its meaning. Constructed of a robotic skeleton, incased in a soft, eroding skin of petroleum jelly, wax, and pigment with graphite extremities.

As the form traverses a performative space, it moves freely, creating its own marks as it loses its original form, reading and meaning. Through this, the artist invites audiences to consider notions of fluidity and rigidity within the interpretation of text, and the power of mark-making in the birth of new transformative landscapes of meaning.

The sculptural machine was created in collaboration with the robotics work of Benjamin Panreck and technologist Noah Feehan. Original audio composition by soledxb, is a collaborative composition titled, Chasing the Sun's Shadow, and was created and composed by Orbital Patterns, Quintin Christian, and Rajat Malhotra, using modular synthesis, organic found sounds, and audio excerpts of conversations with the artist.

Sculpture: Factum Arte, calip.er, Artur Weber and Quinner baird.

Audio mastering: Audioanimals.

Curated by Philip Tinari & Wejdan Reda

Commissioned by the Diriyah Biennale Foundationa