My practice begins with the implicit presumptions that render everyday objects legible - continuity, stability, spatiality, and other conditions of perceptual coherence. These presumptions are bent, subverted, and intensified until their perceptual grip manifests, opening questions of whether dimensionality is given or produced, what forms of stability measurement itself presupposes, and whether space precedes objects or emerges through them.
The investigation places ontological formalism and phenomenological inquiry into sustained tension, treating their respective assumptions not as axioms but as interventions brought to bear on the same objects. Sculpture thus becomes the site where idealization meets physical resistance, and perception is unsettled by the very systems that organize it.
Process here is a continued dialect rather than a synthesis. Moving from ordinary observation through metaphysical inquiry, computational operation, and material production, the work culminates in objects that challenge their own coherence, articulate political critique in mathematical form, and establish poetry not as metaphor or ornament, but as residue.
Siavash lives and works between Mexico, Puerto Rico, and the US. He holds A.B. degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy from Brown University.
The Problem of Dimension
Dimensionality is not a property but a problem masquerading as a solution. Ask what dimension measures and the answers proliferate without converging...
Metastructural Practice
The problem with sculpture is not that it exists in three dimensions but that it presumes dimensionality is settled...
Literary Sculpture
Metastructural practice need not be physical. Borges's Library of Babel exemplifies literary sculpture...
Invisible Dimensions
Contemporary technology increasingly operates through dimensional frameworks invisible to intuition...
On Paths and Structure
Every point is connected to at least one other; isolation negates labyrinthhood. Every space can be reached by some path...
On Perception and Subject
Distinct nodes may appear identical to the traveler. The labyrinth allows perceptual indistinguishability...
On Boundaries and Infinity
The labyrinth is a bounded manifold distinguishing interior from exterior—even if topologically they coincide...
On Transformation and Paradox
The inverse of all paths preserves the labyrinth's nature. The labyrinth cannot be reduced to a simple linear order...