Circle
of life
Nature materials territory installation

An installation of natural materials created as part of the programme ‘Civic Solidarity: New Networks of Repair’ (deathLab Columbia, Karla Rothstain, USA) of the International Summer Academy of Fine Arts in Salzburg, Austria.

The installation fosters new traditions of grief and solidarity, strengthening the bonds between people and their environment.


Choosing your circle.
Each territory creates its own boundaries and possibilities.
Leading to transitions and new stages of experience.
Gathering and intertwining,

A fragile stability is fortified.

The project was created as a territory of REFUGE, where people can sorrow in a city context, creating new traditions of sorrow. The territory was created by discovering materials which can give a new inspiration of form shape and quality of the space and visuals forms.

The culture is changing, connection with the traditional places of sorrow becomes less familiar for people living in modern cities.

To find a new form we dive deeply in such terms as what is liminality, refugee care, repair solidarity impermanence, vitality and grief.

The surrounding gives bright inspiration, leading the artistic process as the co creating agent.

The culture is changing, connection with the traditional places of sorrow becomes less familiar for people living in modern cities.

To find a new form we dive deeply in such terms as what is liminality, refugee care, repair solidarity impermanence, vitality and grief.

The surrounding gives bright inspiration, leading the artistic process as the co creating agent.

Following the inner artistic interest, we could see unpredictable forms, joints textures and patterns.

Playing with connecting without proper idea makes the process going out of logic, which is always limited by experience and inner bounds.

And finally connecting real place with the patterns, there are a new architectural forms and new space.

Following the inner artistic interest, we could see unpredictable forms, joints textures and patterns.

Playing with connecting without proper idea makes the process going out of logic, which is always limited by experience and inner bounds.

And finally connecting real place with the patterns, there are a new architectural forms and new space.

‘Circle of Life’ explores the concepts of liminality, solidarity, fragility and loss, proposing a new space for the collective experience of grief in an urban context. The project endeavours to create a territory of refuge where people can gather, share their emotions and develop new traditions of grief.

Materials and creation process

The installation uses natural materials collected from the neighbourhood to integrate environmental elements into the art space. The creation process involves the cohesion and interweaving of materials, forming fragile stability and new architectural forms.

Philosophy and Concept

The project delves into notions of liminality, care for refugees, solidarity in recovery, transience, vitality and grief. It proposes a rethinking of traditional places of grief, adapting them to contemporary urban conditions and creating spaces for new forms of collective experience.

‘Circle of Life’ is a deep and multi-layered exploration of human emotions and behaviour in the context of the urban environment. The installation fosters new traditions of grief and solidarity, strengthening the bonds between people and their environment.


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