"Goodbye, Silica!"

(2021, kinetic installation)

Bon Alog presents her sculptural kinetic object-installation which further investigates the communal and individual responsibility as well as the issue of an ostensible anonymity of mass processes. “Every year, tons of sand are used for construction worldwide. It is important for me to identify with and talk about the "invisible horizon", about the usage of sand, its exhaustion and the side effects. Silica is present in our everyday lives from computer micro schemes to construction works, that is, it denotes urbanisation and its deeply rooted economic trends. The object I present reflects on the change, the collective responsibility and the paradoxicality of the phenomena I investigate: how humanity's movement towards both modernity and destruction is inevitable. The project is aimed at rethinking sand mining as a process that is actually harmful to our planet, while at the same time relating to the innocent building of sandcastles by the sea in our childhoods..."