Geometric bodies

installation, flour, floor
2018, Budapest, Kunsthalle
cca 40 feet x 26 feet (12m x 8m)

This work, like another installation, consists of flour scattered on the ground. The scattering of flour on the ground is a kind of provocative sacrifice. 
I felt I had to represent human bodies with this fragile imagery. And the most human of these: the face.

Flour is a very modest material, in sharp contrast to mathematics, which is another material, or at least a component, of the work. Yet we cannot live without either of them. Or perhaps we could, but we don't.

Mathematics is not at all the innocent thing it seemed in high school textbooks. Ever since it managed to take on a life of its own, first in software and then in software-driven machines, something of its future has been hinted at.

There is not much we can do about it, we have given it our faces, and now out of all those faces something is being created that has never been seen before.
At first it seems that the faces scattered from flour on the ground are very vulnerable. In fact, their destruction, their disintegration beyond recognition, can only be achieved by the persistent efforts of many people.