Eterotopia
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A place that is not a place. Every relation inverted, suspended, neutralised — a dimension without time or space.
Heterotopia, a term coined by the French philosopher Michel Foucault, refers to spaces that have the peculiarity of being connected to all other spaces — a "place that is not a place" where every type of relation between them is inverted, suspended or neutralised.
In the visual realm, this translates into a creative expansion of representational possibilities: virtual worlds that transgress physical laws and experiment with surreal or fantastical elements.
In these scenes one possible facet of Heterotopia is expressed through the initial letter of its name. The letter, characterised by an overall curvilinear form, develops through four segments that, along their path, differ through a change in the state of the matter that composes them.
01Molten glass
02Cytosol
03Raw gold
04Amber
05Rock
06Water
At the base, an organic form anchors the letter to the ground. Around it, surreal and fantastical elements float in the air, reinforcing the meaning of heterotopia.
Each object contradicts the laws of physics — levitating, dissolving, reforming — creating a space that exists outside any recognisable reality.
"To enter Eterotopia is to inhabit a place that refuses to be one."Eterotopia — project note, 2024