Sally Remy-Malik

Off Road Design

BORROWING ATOMS

How many beings have used the same atoms as I?

Everything decays, and this universal experience brings us together through disassembly. Yet, welded to decay with rusted joints are primeval feelings of fear, anxiety and repulsion. The project aims to challenge these connotations, through an invitation to reflect and meditate.

Inspired by Buddhist meditations on the Nine Stages of Decay and its connected art of Kusōzu, a sequential installation was crafted, wandering through realms of philosophy, biology and spirituality. Composed of 6 mixed-media sculptures using ceramics as a centrepiece, a narrative text and an introductory audio element, the project guides viewers through themes of ageing, death, decay and the cycle of matter, wishing to offer an opportunity for reflection on the paradox of individuals’ impermanence and eternity: impermanence brought by death, yet eternity shaped by the recycling of atoms.

With a background in product and time-based design, Sally works with storytelling and mixed media in order to illustrate narratives in the third dimension, often rooted in biology, seeking to sprout examination of a subject with additional perspectives.

BORROWING ATOMS is guided by the fundamental chemical concept that nothing gets lost, nothing is created, but rather transformed. Will it succeed in transforming your idea of decay?

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