Data Sheet

Video sculpture and installation
Engraved black acrylic and digital device embedded in volcanic stone
2.85 × 2.20 m
2025

Archives in Transit

Video sculpture and installation exploring memory, technology, and the archive.

This work draws from the Dresden Codex, one of the few surviving Maya manuscripts that escaped colonial destruction. It gathers astronomical and ritual knowledge alongside catastrophic warnings, and as a symbol of resistance, condenses the Mesoamerican vision of cyclical time—revealing the fragility of the archive: what endures never remains intact, but is always subject to re-readings.

I trace a parallel with digital devices: although access to information seems limitless, knowledge remains fragmented and distorted. The Codex was never fully understood—its warnings were ignored, and today they echo within our contemporary crisis. By transforming it, I show how, even in fragments, an archive persists as a vestige in transit.

The piece unfolds as a video sculpture, where a digital device embedded in volcanic stone creates tension between ancestral memory and modernity. Today’s digital overload generates a paradox: saturation itself becomes a form of forgetting. The work questions the fragility of memory and asks whether, as technology advances, our history becomes ever more fragile.