Professional Secrets
Sculpture
Wood inlays
Dimensions 21×29,7 cm each panel
2024 on-going
Supported by Mondriaan Fund
Registered idea at the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property

 

 

Professional Secrets is a sculptural series embedding secrets. Each sculpture in the series is shaped like a contract page, based on a professional secret shared with the artist. It is the result of a negotiation in which the disclosed elements are decided in collaboration with the person involved. In this work, the object, the title, and the secret message shared with the artist form a contract acting as a Confidential Disclosure Agreement.

 

According to the shared secret, the sculptures are shaped using encoding techniques and encryption algorithms to embed messages using coded languages, ensuring that the story will not be deciphered in the future. The creation of these objects and their patterns are therefore influenced by methods of recognizing visual codes, not only as decorative elements but also as contributors to defining these sculptures as active objects.

 

The result is an ongoing series of hybrid objects conceived as unique pieces, displaying professional secrets that are exposed within the work without being revealed. The use of wooden essences contributes to creating a hybrid object camouflaged within the context in which the work will be displayed.

 

The work culminates in a data bank of concealed secrets, in which the artist collects, processes, and transforms data/secrets, acting as an organization/institution and storing them according to a personal method of archiving as part of a secrecy agreement, ensuring that these stories remain private.