Revolutions per Minutes (RPM)

"Revolutions per Minutes (RPM)" reimagines the revolving door as a mechanism of choreographed participation, exploring the gap between the neoliberal discourse of post-industrial cultural institutions and the lived experience of their workers. The work reclaims the threshold as a site of friction rather than access, slowing circulation, amplifying waiting, and exposing the myth of efficiency.

 

Hand-carved and visibly worn, the door bears marks of labour deliberately left exposed: traces of a worker isolated yet sustaining a system that absorbs effort while claiming recognition. Its ornate patterns acknowledge how political critique is often aestheticised into decorative style.

 

The sculpture transforms a passive threshold into a sentient figure: whimsical, unruly, and paradoxically more alive than its surroundings. Rather than offering entry, it inhabits the impasse, animating refusal as a spatial, mechanical and sensorial gesture.”