selected works
Altar «what is clash»
Portugal, 2023To my knowledge, this was the first-ever altar for the crypto space. I built it for a Web3 conference in Lisbon. I was working in the crypto space, and this project became a way to merge my artistic practice with the culture I lived in: chaotic, fast-moving, and full of contradictions. I wanted to see how spirituality could exist there on its own terms.
I built the altar beside an old car as a site-specific assemblage: tiered surfaces, stacked plastic boxes, and rocks I gathered, with incense clusters, blue-and-white ceramics, fragile Chinese vessels, golden trays, fruit offerings, and red-gold accents. The arrangement echoes Chinese temple altar vocabulary while staying grounded in the street context. I used rocks as a material metaphor for «proof of work», a crypto term, and for the feeling of the industry’s early days.
Instead of the moons I usually use as a centerpiece, I invited Andrey to contribute his 1 × 1 m eye, mounted on a wooden pole, which changed color with the music. The eye carried a quiet irony: in a culture obsessed with both privacy and transparency, something was always watching. The light responded to sound, and the space shifted with the crowd like a collective tide. Exhibited at Arroz Estúdios (Lisbon), a non-profit arts hub supporting emerging artists and interdisciplinary cultural programming.
Dimensions & Materials
1 × 1 m LED eye sculpture on wooden pole (Andrey Ivanov), Chinese ceramics, golden trays, plastic containers, found rocks, potted plants, incense
Approx. installation size: 4 m × 3 m footprint (modular layout, outdoor)
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