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CHAOS CUBES
2025
Marble
40 x 40 x 40 cm each


In Greek cosmology, chaos refers to the state of emptiness that precedes the creation of the universe, or cosmos. Every manifestation of energy needs an opposite. There is no movement unless there is something to oppose it. The general feeling that one side is definitely split off and separate from the other is an illusion. Movement and standstill represent two aspects of a single process. The installation Chaos Cubes consists of two objects made of black and white marble, resembling dice whose dots no longer follow a rigid, numerical order. Instead, they form a dynamic constellation governed by intensity rather than probability. The relationships between the dots are not mathematical but relational. At every moment, the cosmos manifests itself anew in myriads of forms; each movement generates not only local change but reverberates across the entire system. Like a game of self-forgetfulness, each instant produces an unforeseeable configuration. Nothing repeats itself exactly; nothing remains fully predictable. The marble—historically charged as a material of permanence and classical ideality—here becomes a carrier of instability, a reminder that even the most solid forms are shaped by forces of continual reconfiguration. Chaos, the void, is joined with Chronos, time, and we are their children.



Photos: Carlo Zappella