Diagenesis
A cellar made of bricks in Vienna’s historical center becomes the setting for an archaeological fiction and a speculative geological scenario — Diagenesis, an installation shaped by the displacement, transformation, and collaboration with local matter. A dialogue between the human and other-than-human; between past, present, and future.
Through processes of chemical weathering and material erosion, the work rethinks decay not as destruction but as a generative force. Diagenesis stages a site where the deep time of Earth’s crust, urban material histories, and imagined geologies converge.
A cellar made of bricks in Vienna’s historical center becomes the setting for an archaeological fiction and a speculative geological scenario — Diagenesis, an installation shaped by the displacement, transformation, and collaboration with local matter. A dialogue between the human and other-than-human; between past, present, and future.
Through processes of chemical weathering and material erosion, the work rethinks decay not as destruction but as a generative force. Diagenesis stages a site where the deep time of Earth’s crust, urban material histories, and imagined geologies converge.
A cellar made of bricks in Vienna’s historical center becomes the setting for an archaeological fiction and a speculative geological scenario — Diagenesis, an installation shaped by the displacement, transformation, and collaboration with local matter. A dialogue between the human and other-than-human; between past, present, and future.
Through processes of chemical weathering and material erosion, the work rethinks decay not as destruction but as a generative force. Diagenesis stages a site where the deep time of Earth’s crust, urban material histories, and imagined geologies converge.
Diagenesis (2025)
Installation
Viennese Clays, limestone, sediments, acetic acid, brick dust, foraged bricks
With the kind human support of:
Ceramics Studio, Die Angewandte
Prof. Johannes Weber, Conservation department, Die Angewandte
Art & Science department, Die Angewandte
Photography:
Tatiana Del Valle
José Manuel Oviedo Cruz
Exhibited at:
Minuszwei
Domgasse 6, 1010 Vienna.