Mercurocroom & Down to earth

Mercurocroom is a fictional archival object that presents itself as a cryptic map of the solar system. The leatherwork contains a series of QR codes that link to a digital corpus of data, presumably originating from a mission to Mercury. According to the hypothesis proposed by the work, this data contains missing information about cosmological structures and universal connections, organised according to hermetic principles.
The QR codes are no longer accessible today. The links have vanished; the information appears to have been lost. What was once accessible has been reduced to a collection of clues without a key. The work confronts the visitor with the transience of digital technology and the illusion of permanent storage. What happens to knowledge when its carriers disappear? What remains of an archive when only the references still exist?
Somewhere between speculation, document and myth, Mercurocroom functions as an artefact from an uncertain future: a remnant of a system that claimed to unlock the order of the universe, but whose meaning has since become inaccessible.

Down to earth

‘Down to Earth’ originated from a chair found abandoned on the street. By literally cutting the chair in half, an everyday symbol of comfort is reduced to its minimal form. The work draws on a personal experience of voluntary austerity and raises the question of how we deal with loss, limitation and redistribution.
The missing half does not disappear, but is imaginatively returned to a greater whole. What remains is a usable fragment: a proposal for a future in which comfort is no longer taken for granted, but is consciously shared, reduced or reinvented.