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Nodes of Temporary Assembly

​Ongoing project (2026)

Artist Statement

The project explores the mechanisms of constructing life within an unstable environment where baseline stability is absent. The focus is not on the static forms of a home, but on dynamic equilibrium—an uneven stability that is not guaranteed by the urban environment but requires continuous maintenance through bodily practices and routes. Moving away from permanent structures, the project focuses on navigational stabilization, summarized in the thesis: “I am my routes.”

Through the micropolitics of the body (stepping, repeating, pausing, touching) and material effort, the work reclaims the right to a space that formally does not belong to the subject. Urban situations—passage, dependence, threshold—are deconstructed and translated into the structure of an object through compression, tension, and direct contact.

Conceptual Vocabulary​​

  • Spatial practices & Micropolitics of the body

  • Navigational stabilization

  • Architecture of retention

  • The infra-ordinary

 
Materials & Technical Parameters

  • Medium: Canvas treated with earth, nylon cords, metal fasteners, directional light

  • Dimensions: Variable (depends on the space)

  • Year: 2026

This piece is an ongoing chapter of a larger umbrella research, Project HOME.

Artist Elena Gorn sitting on a canvas treated with earth for the project "Nodes of Temporary Assembly" (2026).
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