Where It Ends Up
Video, sculpture
In March 2025 I spent a week in residency at an e-waste recycling facility in the Netherlands, observing the process of separation and working one shift alongside the people who work there.
The so-called waste arrives when no one considers it useful or wants it anymore. It is separated into batches by what it is and what it is made of. Batteries are pulled aside because of the danger they pose. They are the only thing here still treated as capable of doing something.
What interested me was that objects at different points in technological time end up in the same batch. What a thing was for, and who it belonged to, stops being information here.
We meet things in the middle of their lives. Where they are made, and what is taken out of the ground to make them, happens out of sight. What happens to them afterwards is out of sight again. This place is one of the few points where any of it is visible, and I saw only the separation.
Working there became almost meditative after a while.
The soundtrack is built from recordings collected on site, mixed with composed musical elements.
Cable Man
A human figure built entirely from discarded cables found at the facility.
Drowning without noticing.
Cables are everywhere, not always visible but they surround me.
The world is vast and fast.
The more I look the more I stoop into it and it easily drowns me.
a black hole filled with data.
Cable Man, 2025. Discarded electronic cables. At the E-waste facility.
Cable Man in the City, 2025. Discarded electronic cables and cardboard.