Project Description

Topological Imprints

2025

The project Topological Imprints explores ways of seeing and experiencing space and matter through the intersection of art and science. At its core is the video work Space Microscopy, which combines footage of a gallery environment with microscopic images of materials (glass, aluminum, concrete, steel, wood), obtained using a scanning electron microscope (SEM) in collaboration with the Jožef Stefan Institute.The microscopic images are digitally transformed into illusions of moving surfaces and 3D topographies, generating abstract, imaginary landscapes that blur the boundaries between the micro and macro scales. In combination with footage of transitional gallery spaces, the work raises questions of perceptual liminality and invites reflection on space as a subjective, fluid experience, and on matter as a dynamic, unstable reality.

The project also includes a spatial hanging object, Space≞Matter, composed of translucent 3D-printed microscopic reliefs that translate invisible microstructures of materials into tangible forms. Through light effects—partial transparency, reflection, and refraction—it creates a transition between the material and immaterial, the real and the virtual.

The project is further complemented by the drawing series Frequency Levels, which is based on the analysis of microscopic images in the frequency domain (FFT). It translates 3D simulations of materials into layers of wave structures and interferences, revealing the latent geometries of the perceptual environment.

(Collaboration: prof. dr. Sašo Šturm in raziskovalci na Odseku za nanostrukturne materiale Instituta Jožef Stefan)