Within The Matter Loop, The research is based on synthetic components and technological devices drawn from industrial and IT contexts. Technical elements such as heat sinks and energy systems are repurposed as operational surfaces and fields of transformation.
These materials possess a distinctive quality: they are designed to regulate the flow of energy and heat. When incorporated into artistic practice, they become visual devices capable of making invisible forces, tensions and energetic processes perceptible.
The project develops in dialogue with Infostar, a company active in the technological and IT sector. Electronic components and technical materials enter the work as starting elements for artistic research.
This collaboration establishes a relationship between technological infrastructures and artistic practice, opening a space of experimentation between energy systems, images and visual devices.
For over twenty-five years, Infostar has operated in the field of IT solutions and digital integration, serving companies across the region. In this context, innovation advances rapidly, leading to increasingly short cycles of obsolescence. Electronic components, heat sinks, circuit boards and decommissioned devices recount the different stages of technological progress. Within the project, these materials are removed from the logic of accumulation and restored to visibility, making perceptible the concrete dimension of a digital infrastructure often regarded as immaterial. Each discarded element bears witness to a phase in technical evolution: an outdated processor, a cooling system no longer adequate, or a circuit replaced by more efficient versions. Artistic transformation allows these residues to be read as traces of a recent technological history, marked by speed and continuous updating. Electronic matter thus becomes an opportunity to reflect on duration and responsibility within the field of innovation, highlighting the tension between progress and consumption, and the need to rethink cycles of production and disposal.
Kristian Sturi’s work places the material at the centre as an interlocutor. Synthetic components and technological devices are treated as active surfaces, capable of responding and diverting the artist’s initial intention.
The form arises from a dynamic balance between material, light and energy, where the behaviour of the system contributes to the construction of the work.
For The Matter Loop, the artist creates an iron bifora that evokes the idea of a threshold and passage. Within the frame, two close-up photographs of heat sinks isolate a technical element, transforming it into an image.
The two openings host a young huntress of manga lineage and a creature withdrawing into vegetation, constructing a dialogue between the visible and the latent.
Connecting the two images is an energetic device: Tesla coils generate electrical discharges in the space between the surfaces. The small lightning arcs trace an intermittent pattern that places the images under tension, making energy perceptible as visible matter and transforming the work into a dynamic system between force and support.
Collective exhibition
Matter, process and collaboration between art and industry
28 March – 26 April
The Circle
