Maja Petrić | The Glitched Sublime

02 - 11 JUN

  • This exhibition presents a system that responds directly to environmental change.

     

    Working with real-time data, Petrić has built a custom process that translates shifting conditions in the natural world into physical form. The system tracks environmental conditions in regions where Arctic poppies bloom. When these conditions exceed the limits of their survival, the system activates. It does not interpret or simulate. It responds. The works in this exhibition are the result of that response.

     

    Each light-based sculpture and pigment work is produced through a live interaction between data, machine, and material. The robotic process is reactive, triggered by specific environmental conditions as they occur. Each element marks a moment when an environment moves beyond its historical stability.

     

    These works are not generated images. They are physical records of real-world conditions.

     

    Each piece holds a precise moment in time. Once produced, it is fixed. The conditions that formed it cannot be repeated.

  • Across the exhibition, these individual works are connected through a larger, continuous system. Specimens of Time: Spectrum extends this structure into immersive light environments that respond in real time to specific ecosystems. Colour, intensity and rhythm shift as environmental signals change, making these conditions perceptible as atmosphere rather than information.

     

    Together, the works form a framework in which environmental change generates form.

     

    Petrić’s practice draws from a lineage of process-based and systems-driven art, where the artwork is not composed in advance but produced through a set of conditions. Here, that condition is the instability of the natural world.

     

    Technology in this work is not neutral. Systems typically used to monitor and optimize are redirected to register and preserve what is disappearing. What emerges is not a representation of nature, but a set of time-stamped artifacts and living environments that make environmental change physically present.

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