The elephant in the room

The title refers to invisible violence within family systems — situations where abuse and dysfunction are present, but never spoken about. Silence becomes part of the structure. Any attempt to name it risks destabilising the system itself.
The installation reconstructs this fragile equilibrium. A space held together only by tension — a structure that can collapse at any moment. Like an “elephant moving in the room”, the slightest shift can trigger a rupture, as if reality itself becomes seismic.
Domestic machines are dismantled and reassembled as unstable bodies. Once functional systems are turned into exposed architectures — present yet non-operational, suspended between presence and disappearance.
Within this logic, family relations are understood as mechanical structures: individuals functioning as replaceable parts, defined by use rather than connection. A system shaped by consumption, where repair is replaced by substitution.
Sound operates as an invisible layer — a persistent background noise that simulates presence while disrupting communication, like a television always on in an empty room.
The work reflects on collapse as structure, and on instability as a condition rather than an accident — where meaning emerges precisely at the point where systems begin to fall apart.