Human Error
2025Human Error is a wall based sculpture consisting of handmade bio-plastics, a steel hook and a plastic lighting gel. The skin-like agar sheet is crudely screwed onto the wall and supports a common coat hook. Hung over the hook is a delicate transparent gel, dangling forlornly towards the ground. Depending on the sun's path, the sculpture is struck by a sunbeam giving the work the essence of a non functioning sundial, creating colourful light play and material glow.
The pairing of the natural material (the agar) and the steel hook are juxtaposed, highlighting the natural fragility of agar, a material derived from red algae. The piece is obscurely placed, hung unnaturally high, the hook losing its original purpose. This creates an emptiness in the space with visitors needing to search for the piece. Its sudden activation by the sun spotlights the work adding a feeling of beauty, transience and loss.
The phrase ‘Human Error’ is defined as the primary cause and contributing factor in industrial disasters and accidents or a symptom, indicator of deeper problematic issues within a system. With emphasis on growing environmental awareness and biodegradability, the use of handmade marine-plant fibres such as red algae, highlights our global desire to be eco-conscious but how we are still inhabiting old habits.
The misuse of the hook questions who is the heavier load that needs supporting and raises the question of our contributing factor in the current environmental development.
Galvanised steel, agar, glycerine, lighting gel
16 x 7 x 80 cm
Photography: Mischa Haller