In this exhibition, Caline Aoun presents constructed setups that unveil invisible forces perpetually shaping and transforming our environment. Her works capture transitional moments, blurring the boundaries between evolving states and conditions. These ephemeral states serve as amplified representations of dynamic exchanges, artificially rendering visible and tangible natural phenomena like condensation, heat transfer from sunlight or electronic devices, and the cyclical nature of trees shedding their leaves.
All the works in the space explore the notion of entropic time, allowing for the accumulation or dissipation of energy, leading to transformation—a change in condition or state. Despite the works’ seemingly impermeable surfaces, they remain circumstantial and sensitive to the conditions of the space, such as temperature or daylight, or the materials involved in their making. They articulate an energy that transcends conventional order and equilibrium, prompting reflection on how our surroundings are constantly shaped by artificial norms and invisible forces, which ultimately succumb to entropic processes.
About the artist's practice
Caline Aoun’s practice challenges the notion of static existence by recognising the perpetual evolution inherent in all things. She perceives the objects and elements around us as active components intricately connected within a larger system. She materialises these intangible connections and makes visible the unseen forces that shape the processes of entropy, which permeate every aspect of our environment.
In an era dominated by the rapid rise of AI, the digital realm, and the subsequent blurring of physical boundaries, Aoun’s measured experiments emerge as a timely reminder of the significance of our tangible existence. She invites us to reflect upon subtle transformations, accumulations and dissipations, as well as rhythms and entropic details that unfold within the realm of the tangible, arising from the interplay of time and matter.
Aoun’s work stands within the blurred boundaries between the intangible and the concrete, the real and the virtual, and the natural and the artificial. She encourages us to pause, reflect and re-measure the significance of our physical surroundings in an increasingly ephemeral world.