Intimate Mechanism establishes a dialogue between industrial residues and organic life. The central structure, composed of a truck exhaust system—curved, fragmented, rusted, marked by time, and already bearing traces of a hybrid life—rests on thin metal supports, creating a sense of suspension. This arrangement opens spaces of circulation and permeability for those who walk around the sculpture, allowing the spectator’s body to insert itself into the field of the work.

The cold, metallic surface contrasts with the softness of moss, strategically placed along the structure, evoking the symbiosis between the natural and the man-made. This friction between organic and industrial elements challenges the notion of “mechanism,” which here is not limited to

a technical device but expands into the idea of an extended organism. The exhaust pipe, originally designed to expel combustion residues, becomes a support for another kind of breathing: the breath of living matter that settles into the fissures of the metal.

In this encounter, the work calls forth a reflection on distinct temporalities: the accelerated time of the machine, governed by productive and functional logic, and the slow time of vegetal growth, which insists on surviving and infiltrating the interstices of dead matter. It is a choreography between entropy and vitality, in which the metal carries the marks of its obsolescence, while the moss asserts its power of regeneration.