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Sophie Pacelko


“ELEMENTAL METABOLISM”



ELEMENTAL METABOLISM in the PostNatural Landscape is a critique of industrialization and post-industrial solutionism. Here nature and culture collapse into a nonproductive environment through the metamorphosis of molecules. Situated in the hydrologic, geologic, and atmospheric realms of Paris, toxins are sequestered via soft, kinetic technologies that render them visible through crystalline ores and chemically rewilding elements' geological timeframes to reproduce nontoxic forms. Prototissues are developed into plasmátic membranes that grow around the ores and form landscapes. In restoring geological time, the prototissues are in
a perpetual state of being built and unbuilt by evolutionary processes.