Sediment I | 2026
Cast iron, embedded speakers
87 × 33 × 13 cm
Exhibited in EROS
Dome of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center (SNFCC)
Athens, Greece, 6 May 2026.
Acquired by a private collector.
Sediment I investigates how geological processes function as forms of memory, and how listening can reveal the temporal layers embedded within matter. Conceived as a sculptural body carrying sound within it, the work approaches sediment not as a passive record of the past, but as an active process through which landscapes, histories, and bodies continually transform one another.
Drawing on the buried course of the Ilissos River and the myth of Oreithyia, the sculpture reflects on the traces left by ecological and cultural erasure. Rather than presenting memory as something fixed, it proposes sedimentation as an ongoing accumulation of material, sonic, and historical layers that continue to shape the present.
By embedding sound within cast iron, Sediment I invites listening as a way of encountering what persists beneath the visible surface, where geological matter becomes both archive and an active process of memory.