Dead matter
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2025 Dead matter (vacuum chamber)
In Dead Matter (vacuum chamber), Mona Schulzek incorporates the remains of a vacuum architecture she had constructed—an unsuccessful attempt to technically capture emptiness. In a ritual act, she burned the object, sealed its ashes in a glass ampoule, and placed it at the sculpture’s core: an urn preserving experimental failure, transformation, and symbolic rebirth. In contrast to Point Nemo—the remotest spot on Earth where decommissioned satellites are sunk into the “space graveyard”—Schulzek emphasizes material circulation and estrangement from origins in this cosmic-terrestrial convergence. She shifts attention to vanishing sites and asks: What remains when systems collapse? – Text by Teresa Retzer
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