Entangled Matter

A cascade of unprecedented chemical and physical reactions reshapes Earth’s land, air, and water, forging novel molecules, bacteria, and microorganisms that permanently alter nature—and ultimately the human species.

The boundary between life and matter is thinning. Hybrid materials assemble forms beyond nature’s logic. New molecules sustain invisible bacterial life, feeding on synthetic compounds, turning waste into nourishment, undoing the split between the natural and the artificial. Plastics, once thought inert, now move through blood and tissue. PFAS settle in membranes, shifting their rhythm; polymer fragments lodge in organs, crossing cellular thresholds and altering metabolism. Across generations, these intrusions may leave marks on development, immunity, and behaviour. Insects carry microbes that digest microplastics. Trees trap airborne fibres. Plankton absorb synthetic lipids into living membranes. Humanity, once the maker of the planet’s chemistry, now lives inside its consequences. What was produced for convenience has become a force of irreversible transformation, a residue that keeps returning in bodies, soils, and water. My practice responds through images and objects where decay and persistence meet: photographic paper decomposed by microorganisms or soaked in waste oil, installations spanning studio and landscape. These works trace a world in which organic and synthetic matter no longer stand apart, but mingle, erode, and remake one another. Yet this entanglement is not only material but intimate: it enters breath, skin, and inheritance, reminding us that every human body is already a porous site of exchange, vulnerability, and profound transformation.