Exposition

Bird → ∞ (last edited: 2025)

Kirill Arkadiev
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About this exposition

I work at the boundary where a finite biological object asymptotically approaches zero and, through this disappearance, gives birth to an infinite aesthetic event — a singularity. The series “Singularity of Beauty” is an ongoing investigation into the moment when decay, entropy, and controlled human intervention collide to rupture the visible world and generate a new, non-representational order. Method: Asymptotic Ritual A chosen organic system (bird, bouquet, insect colony, fungal network) is placed on a prepared surface and deliberately abandoned to natural forces — heat, humidity, insects, gravity, time. During a fixed ritual period (7 days in the current cycle), the object decays following an exponential law analogous to f(t) = a·e⁻ᵏᵗ. The artist is absent; only documentation occurs. At t → ∞ (practically: when the biological object approaches zero), the artist re-enters as a second asymptotic operator. Selective pigment application, removal of material, and layering transform the residue into a visual limit — a singularity point where the initial object has vanished, yet infinite meaning emerges. The final state is neither representation nor abstraction; it is the frozen event of the limit itself. Core Principles Decay is not a theme; it is the first author. Time is treated as a physical material with measurable half-life. Human intervention functions as a controlled perturbation that forces the system past its natural equilibrium into aesthetic infinity. The resulting image is a palimpsest of two incompatible temporalities: biological time (unstoppable) and artistic time (intermittent, intentional). The “demon” is not a depicted figure but the mathematical event of the singularity: the instant when order, passing through zero, becomes infinite and alien.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsdemon of beauty, 7-day ritual, asymptotic transformation, contemporary painting, Dark Ecology, decay aesthetics, ritual art, mathematical singularity, entropy, process art
date22/11/2025
last modified22/11/2025
statusin progress
share statuspublic
affiliationindependent artist, Thailand
copyrightKirill Arkadev
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/4005930/4005931
external linkTikTok - @kir.arkadev


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