ANTAL Malvina
(1987)

Iteration

2018
papier-mâché
height 507 cm, Ø 40 cm

Antal Malvina's installation was created specifically for this space, in 2018, as part of the Living Collection pop-up exhibition project. The block-like nature of the marble works is echoed in the form of the elements of the installation, but the site-specific contemporary work's components also rhyme plastically with the sculptures in the exhibition space.
The title, Iteration, implies gradual improvement and linear progress, and refers to the method by which the installation was made and its step-by-step, repeating structure. The morphology and rhythm of the work, as well as its top-down trajectory, all symbolise our existence. The papier-mâché from which the installation is made lends the “shell-like sculptures” the appearance of floating in space. In this work of modern art, our world is defined as an entity in motion. It represents the system of metamorphosis by which our material and spiritual being constantly develops, in a way that is determined by both space and time.