PLASMA

Through this project, I explore how the language of science becomes entangled with fantasy, how knowledge transforms into myth, and how art can open this holographic field for reflection today.

My father was a plasma torch operator. Many of my relatives were scientists and engineers, some of them working directly in the space sector. Among them was my father, whose work belonged to the field of experimental physics: he tested materials for spacecraft hulls using a plasma torch. A plasma torch is an installation in which gas is converted into a plasma state to produce a stream of extremely high temperature. This stream is directed at material samples while parameters are recorded and measurements of wear and structural change are carried out.

I did not follow their professional path. I became a musician and later an artist. At the same time, I was raised on factual and popular science books and films. These did not bring me closer to formal scientific knowledge, but instead offered a moral and intellectual orientation. Over the years, the number of questions I wish I could ask my relatives has only grown. Many of them, however, are no longer alive. What remains are fragments: my own memories, stories I heard about their work, technical documents and photographs preserved at home, and my own reconstructions.

I no longer regard these materials as precise knowledge but as forms of cultural communication. In working with memories, narratives, and documents preserved in the household, I enter into a dialogue with the past. This dialogue is not literal but operates in a mythological mode of communication. Here, myth does not mean fabrication but a way of sustaining connection, of constructing belonging to their world.

Plasma, as a project, grows from this tension. It moves between scientific documentation and personal memory, between factual detail and cultural myth. The images of plasma are not only traces of physics experiments but also part of a wider hologram of the cosmos in culture — where science, imagination, and art intersect. Through this project, I explore how the language of science becomes entangled with fantasy, how knowledge transforms into myth, and how art can open this holographic field for reflection today.