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The Post-material archive 03, Venice Pavillion, 61st Edition of Biennale di Venezia: In minor keys, Venice (ITA)
| category | Installation |
| subject | Political / Social |
| tags | |
| base | 300 cm |
| height | 300 cm |
| depth | 100 cm |
| year | 2026 |
The Post-material Archive 03 extends Elisa Capucci’s The Post-material Archive series through an immersive
installation that articulates the life phases of a singular hybrid organism. Each anatomical fragment and
developmental phase of the creature corresponds to a distinct stage within its life cycle.
Industrial scaffolding pipes construct a fundamental structural system through which the hybrid organism is
generated and brought into being, forming an evolving framework where hybrid forms coexist, mutate, and
continuously transform.
Casting, the central technique underlying the work, operates not merely as a reproductive process, but as a
trans-material methodology that connects heterogeneous substances, temporalities, and species. Waste materials,
urban residues, and speculative anatomies derived from imagined futures are assembled and transformed into
composite hybrid bodies. Matter is understood as an active agent, simultaneously shaping and being shaped
through processes of continuous material exchange.
This series explores the kinships between living and non-living entities, the interactions between species and
productive and socio-economic infrastructures, and the potential configurations of post-human futures.
Capucci’s research approaches sculpture not as a mere formal or aesthetic outcome, but as an active epistemic
and pedagogical practice.
Drawing on speculative realism and vital materialism, the artist investigates sculpture as a diffractive instrument
capable of reconfiguring relationships between humans and the complex materialities and corporalities of the
contemporary condition. From this perspective, the sculptural work becomes a site of collective future memory, a
device for processing grief, and a space of active transformation.
installation that articulates the life phases of a singular hybrid organism. Each anatomical fragment and
developmental phase of the creature corresponds to a distinct stage within its life cycle.
Industrial scaffolding pipes construct a fundamental structural system through which the hybrid organism is
generated and brought into being, forming an evolving framework where hybrid forms coexist, mutate, and
continuously transform.
Casting, the central technique underlying the work, operates not merely as a reproductive process, but as a
trans-material methodology that connects heterogeneous substances, temporalities, and species. Waste materials,
urban residues, and speculative anatomies derived from imagined futures are assembled and transformed into
composite hybrid bodies. Matter is understood as an active agent, simultaneously shaping and being shaped
through processes of continuous material exchange.
This series explores the kinships between living and non-living entities, the interactions between species and
productive and socio-economic infrastructures, and the potential configurations of post-human futures.
Capucci’s research approaches sculpture not as a mere formal or aesthetic outcome, but as an active epistemic
and pedagogical practice.
Drawing on speculative realism and vital materialism, the artist investigates sculpture as a diffractive instrument
capable of reconfiguring relationships between humans and the complex materialities and corporalities of the
contemporary condition. From this perspective, the sculptural work becomes a site of collective future memory, a
device for processing grief, and a space of active transformation.
