Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit (2026)

Produced during the RIscARTI Festival as the Artist in Residence at Marevivo Floating Hub in Rome, Italy.
Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit is a temporary sculptural beacon constructed from collected and discarded materials.

Situated at Scalo de Pinedo, a former port on the Tiber, the work responds to the site's history of trade and the movement of commodities.
The beacon draws a relationship between objects entering a city as goods and their eventual departure from circulation as waste.

The process of collecting in Rome also revealed significant differences from working in London, where discarded objects are more readily available on the streets. This contrast prompted questions about the relationship between consumption, disposal and the point at which an object is considered to have lost its usefulness.

The work brings these observations together through a structure built from the material remnants of the city,
reflecting on the changing value and circulation of everyday objects.