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This cast was inspired by a gigantic enlargement of a house dust mite, an arthropod that feeds on organic detritus and whose faeces cause allergic reactions. Having lost its original form due to the exaggerated scale, it now resembles an imaginary planet in its odd shape and rotation around itself. The artist controlling this machine has created a set of rules all its own: a rotary motion that conceals an invented space-time: time that is not subordinated to external conditions, but rather exists independently.

In his book Art and Cyberspace (2016), scholar Avi Rosen describes how the compression of time is manifested primarily in the work of art. Artworks past and present have generated a new temporal space, a cyberspace, which he defines as the compression of space and time: ‘In the digital era, space and time are electronically compressed into the surfer’s body, eliminating the gap between action and reaction, and the distinction between close and distant. Compression indicates the potential transformation of our lives into mythical and integral, a continuous work of art; because in art, compression represents the artist’s ability to contain the moments of the world in his consciousness.’

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