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The Decay of Time2026
Stratigraphies2025
Radial Drift2025
Sensory Diet2025
Capsule of Encounter2024
Sensory Body: Researching Self through Community2024
Ripping Footnotes2024
Quicksilver: Closed Circuit Currencies2023
RE-Inhabiting Movement2023
Growbox2022
Grain2021
The Centuries of Selves2020
Social Textile2019
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Sensory Body: Researching Self through Community2024
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Quicksilver2023
Reviving Frequencies2022
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(psi)2023–24
Internazionale – The Sun Is Red (ft. Loverman)
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Quicksilver2023
Growbox2022
Sensory Body2024
Diary
The Decay of TimeInstallation, moving image, short film
(2026)
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The Decay of Time investigates radioactive isotopes whose decay is used as a standardised unit for measuring time. Following atmospheric nuclear weapons testing between 1945 and 1970, these isotopes dispersed globally, embedding within ocean layers. They form a planetary residue of nuclear history and a measurement infrastructure through which oceanic movement and temporal order are mapped.

Within ocean systems, radioactive isotopes trace thermohaline circulation, a global system of seawater movement driven by temperature, salinity, and density differences. As water cools and becomes saltier it increases in density, sinks into the deep ocean, and returns to the surface over timescales of up to 1,500 years, carrying isotopic traces across the globe.The installation centres on a water circulation loop based on thermohaline principles. Density differences are generated through heating at one end and cooling at the other, setting water into vertical motion through gravity, temperature, and density gradients. This circulation directly affects the swimmer: as circulation intensifies, the swimmer stabilises and glides; as it slows, shifting density increases resistance, producing temporal lag and fragmentation in movement.

A short film situates these processes within the standardisation of time, framing them as technopolitical infrastructures converting military violence into planetary measurement. The Decay of Time reframes time as a hybrid material process emerging from radioactive matter, ocean circulation, and embodied perception, showing time as politically constructed through nuclear history, scientific standardisation, and the translation of destruction into global knowledge, where measurement becomes both record and residue of planetary systems shaped by Cold War infrastructures and their continuing environmental afterlives across deep time and planetary scale.

Sound design by Liza Kuzyakova, voice by Angelina Nonaj, scientific advisory by Dennis Vermeulen (Environmental Fluid Mechanics, TU Delft).
Solo exhibition, Gallery Rigo, Novigrad, Croatia — 04.09.2026.