5220 minutes, 2026
Adhesive tape rolls, stainless steel hook
500 x 11 cm

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This piece takes its title from the exact amount of time required to make it. The chain-like form is built by alternating industrially produced rolls of adhesive tape with identical modules that were manually interconnected and rewound by hand.

Through the repetition of the same gesture, the work reflects on the thin line between alienation and meditation, between mechanical precision and human limitation.The process demands intense discipline and constant mental focus in an attempt to get as close as possible to the perfection of the machine, while fully aware that such perfection can never truly be reached. It is precisely within that inevitable gap that the most human traces of the work begin to emerge.In trying to imitate industrial perfection, small imperfections, variations, and subtle errors inevitably surface, reminding us how incompatible the human gesture remains with the idea of absolute perfection.

The sculpture therefore becomes not only a form, but a physical recording of the time required for its own existence. I like to think of these works as “temporal sculptures”, pieces that do not exist solely through their physical presence, but through the accumulated time, gesture, and repetition embedded within their making.