The Span from Shoulder to Shoulder as I Waited

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Measurement provides certainty in moments of doubt, or does it? Even before the definition of the meter, humans sought to refine the act of measuring, yet it has always remained accompanied by deviation.

In this sculptural installation, I seek to examine the subjectivity of human deviation in contrast to the supposed objectivity of measurement, and to argue that it is precisely deviation this inherent inaccuracy that signals our humanity.

Through strategies of disruption, interference, distortion, and neutralization, the sculptural arrangement creates a tension between the aspiration for absolute precision and the organic nature of deviation a tension that unsettles what seems self-evident and invites a renewed gaze at what might otherwise appear trivial.

Measurement itself, as a human construct, was born of a basic need to comprehend the world, to act within it, and to maximize its resources. It relies on a comparative act: setting a particular magnitude against a unit represented by a number. The exhibition seeks to reconsider the encounter between the body and measurement, and the shifting interplay between them. The body my own alongside that of the viewer becomes a central axis: from ancient units of measurement based on the cubit, the span, and the finger’s breadth, which were woven into language and culture, to the transition toward external, more precise instruments that displaced the body as a standard.

Some of the works were born from random measurements carried out by others: fifty people asked to estimate half a meter with their hands, or a military unit instructed to shoot toward an unmarked target. These actions, performed without awareness of their purpose, generate bodily experiences that illustrate the tension between visibility and functionality.

This tension is also embodied in the combination of measuring tools and rigid building materials with wax a sensitive and unstable substance that reacts to the conditions of the space and cannot serve for measurement. The wax resonates with corporeality and fragility. These material encounters reveal intervals of human reflection and questioning within the rigid and rational practices of measurement.