Lou Jaworski, NUMBERS, 2024

2024

Medium

3D print and meteorite

Dimensions

28 × 54 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-155936

The installation “NUMBERS” (2024) consists of nine 3D-printed sculptural components of a superhumanly large Pinocchio figure. In the original Italian story, Geppetto carves a marionette-like puppet out of a talking tree trunk, which then comes to life. Jaworski's version is a digital appropriation of the literary figure. In the 3D printing process, the individual parts are produced separately, which is reflected in the spatial installation. However, the fragments are mentally assembled into a complete, recognizable body. In its effect, the figure is at once uncanny and lifeless, as well as playful. Personifying the lie, it questions the independence of narratives, but also, through its material aesthetics, the trustworthiness of new technological developments. “NUMBERS” not only challenges conventional proportions, but connects to the cosmic whole through the eyes of the headpiece made of meteorite slices. They are pieces of an approximately 4.7 billion year old iron meteorite found in the Altai Mountains of China and have a typical crystalline structure. The figure was not assigned a color in the 3D program and also presents itself in printed, physical form as a digital model; at the same time, the gray coloring underscores its lifelessness and turns it into a projection surface for an abstract idea.