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φύσις (phýsis)
The modern word physics names a science of matter, energy, motion, and their laws. Yet it reaches back to the ancient Greek φύσις (phýsis), from φύω (phýō): to grow, to bring forth, to come into being.
In a walkable essay installed on two opposing walls of Engelbrekt Church, text and textiles followed the fabric of modern physics from the theory of general relativity to the indeterminate world of quantum phenomena. The work moves through attempts to weave the universe into a coherent whole, to the places where that fabric begins to unravel. What remains when the world can no longer be described as a single, continuous fabric? And what language do we have to describe such a world?
Photos by Lena Polishko.
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