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ASTOLFO MARIA CICERANO
FILTH
Filth: The semiotics of decay a research on material entropy and temporal narratives
Year: 2015-2019
Location: Italy
Role: Lead Researcher & Concept Designer
Type: Material Research / Experimental Installation
Status: Completed
Filth works with iron rust as both material and language. The oxidation process, usually read as damage, as failure, becomes here the primary medium: something that builds form while dissolving it.
The pop symbols embedded in the surface operate as familiar signs placed under pressure. A heart, a star, a grenade, a cartoon figure: images drawn from collective visual memory, now consumed by the same entropic process they were meant to outlast. What remains is neither icon nor ruin, but something suspended between the two.
The panels record time without representing it. The surface is where matter and duration become the same thing.