Apparatus I
- Medium
- Steel, magnets, acrylic, digital prints on glassine and tracing paper
- Dimensions
- 70 × 70 × 120 cm
Apparatus I is a site-responsive installation exploring the architecture of digital and institutional systems, and how these structures reveal, conceal, organize, and distort information. Consisting of a fixed steel framework and interchangeable image-panels secured magnetically within standardized A-series paper-sized frames, the installation functions like a dynamic visual filing system. This adaptability invites continuous reconfiguration and reinterpretation of its visual narratives, echoing the fragmented, rhizomatic, and evolving nature of digital communication and collective memory.
Named after the scholarly tradition of the apparatus criticus, a textual system documenting variant historical manuscripts, Apparatus I draws attention to how institutional narratives are often presented as seamless or singular, concealing disruption and manipulation with a unified facade. Semi-translucent paper partially obscures a system of ghostly prints depicting infrastructural scaffolding, creating a dialogue between illumination and obfuscation, stability and precarity, clarity and noise.
