An installation that uses water vapor to create and disperse the word “Anemochory.” The title refers to the process by which seeds and spores are dispersed by wind, a mode of movement determined by changing atmospheric conditions rather than by a planned direction. At the center of the work is a device that produces mist in rhythmic cycles, briefly revealing the word inscribed within it. Moments later, the text disappears. Whether it remains legible depends on temperature, humidity, air movement, and time. Information has no permanent form here, it appears and disappears as environmental conditions change. Breathing is understood simultaneously as the action of a machine, a repetitive rhythm, and a process taking place within an environment. Adaptation does not mean adjusting to a single system, but continuously functioning under changing conditions. By slowing down the process of reading, the work resists the logic of instant accessibility and constant optimization. Instead of a permanent message, it offers the experience of something that exists only for a moment. The work develops themes present throughout the artist’s practice, which examines relationships between information and processes occurring in nature. By combining technology with phenomena such as evaporation, condensation, oxidation, and erosion, Lahuis creates installations in which information is not a fixed record but depends on material and environmental conditions. Anemochory asks when and under what conditions a message becomes legible, and how natural processes can influence the ways in which we receive and understand information.
- Adaptive Breathing - New Media Week at Silesian Museum, Katowice (PL)
