The Stubborness of Matter 1 & 2

The works "The Stobborness of Matter 1" and "The Stubborness of Matter 2" are action-tokens of forces employed in their changing. They consist originally each of a white metal bar. The first one is heated and bent and the second one is hammered until achieving this angle of 90 degrees to then be placed against an angle on a wall.

The work constitutes itself in revealing the profound tensions that took place when bending these hard objects. The question, which becomes clear by the title of the project, is to deliver some of the issues related to matter and its 'will' to remain as it is. One can derive this thought from the first laws of Newtonian physics: that a moving body tends to stay in movement and also that an inert body tends to stay inert. The very matter of these objects were making a clear statement of their 'will': wanting to remain as they were. The relations also are made by revealing not just the human force directly or mechanically employed to transform it but also the human will to change it. There are two different wills opposing and taking to the limit until one finally is neutralized.