Naja

This is an interactive sculpture about the transformation of labour into warfare, and the violence concealed within ordinary objects. A cluster of agricultural and manual tools casts a projected shadow that changes in response to the viewer’s proximity. As the audience approaches, the familiar silhouettes are progressively reconfigured into a battlefield: rifles, grenades, helmets, gas masks and trenches emerge from the composition. At a distance, the image returns to an ambiguous, almost neutral form.

The work reflects on the experience of conscription during the First World War, when farmers, workers and artisans were compelled to exchange the instruments of their everyday lives for those of conflict. By making this shift contingent on the viewer’s movement, the installation turns proximity into an act of revelation: war is not represented as a distant event, but as a condition embedded within material culture and collective memory.