Archae Resin Sculpture Enlighted

Archae series 2019

REFLECTION, REFRACTION, ITERATION

ARCHAE.

– FROM ANCIENT GREEK ἀρχαῖος ARKHAIOS: PERTAINING TO THE ORIGIN, PRIMEVAL, PRIMITIVE, ANCESTRAL.
– FROM LATIN ARCHA/ARCHAE: ARK, CHEST, BOX. ETHIMOLOGICAL ROOT OF THE TERM ARCANUS: SECRET, UNFATHOMABLE.)

LIGHT PROJECTION THROUGH CUBIC ETHEREAL BODIES, FLOATING IN THE SPACE. AN ILLUSION OF SUSPENDED BASALTIC CRYSTAL ROCKS. VOLATILITY, EVANESCENCE, PARALLEL DIMENSION.

LIGHT GOES THROUGH VOLUMES AND TEXTURE GENERATED BY EPOXY RESIN AND FIBERGLASS, SCATTERING IN ALL DIRECTIONS, CREATING AN EMOTIVE ILLUSION OF GRADIENT LIGHT, SHADOWS AND COLOR, EMPHASIZING THE FEELING OF UNREALITY AND DREAMINESS.

THE LIGHTING IS WARM, FULL OF MATCHES, UNIQUE AND PERSONAL.

Enlighted structure-sculpture. Piece created one to one using a unique manual process and by lost mold. 8 units + 1AP by model.

Archae are ethereal sculptures reminiscent of the 8 bit universe and voxel-brutalism, diaphanous organic volumes that recreate a timeless and nostalgic digital visual universe. As the light passes through the material, it is dispersed uniformly in all directions, generating a sensation of unreality and dreaminess.

ARCHAE 410: yellow solid epoxi resin. Dimensions: 118 x 47 x 57 cm.

ARCHAE 411: green solid epoxi resin. Dimensions: 63 x 63 x 30 cm.

ARCHAE 412: pink solid epoxi resin. Dimensions: 54 x 39,5 x 39,5 cm.

Analogic glitches beyond the Ciberculture Matrix.

We developed these pieces after discovering a new working method with epoxy resin. We were looking for a material that we could use and apply with our own hands, generating manual textures similar to clay works, but that would allow light to pass through and we decided to investigate with epoxy resin.

We knew some of its applications, mainly in the wáter sports industry, and a surfboards shapers how edushow to Work with the material, the translucency we could achieve, the resistance… We did tests for about a year. At first we introduced fiberglass and we tried other techniques, such as silicone molding, sandblasting… studying the material, its resistance, temperatura and humidity for better application and Chemical reaction.

Finally we found a way to work the material with our hands. For the master mold we needed a material that we could later extract so we arrived at EPS which, treated previously, allowed us to reproduce the shape and, after applying resin, to destroy it and detach from the final work.

Each of the Works is unique. Both in the color, which is slightly variable in the resin due to issues such as temperature and humidity, and in the arrangement of the airbubbles that are trapped randomly, creating a piece with a watery and some what spectral appearance.

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