Artifacts of a Future Mythology
Format: Group exhibition
Year: 2025
Materials: Concrete, dissolvable 3D-printed molds, wood
Location : Code & Craft exhibition at the Swiss church in London, UK
Credits: Carlos Sabogal García + Alaa Quraishi
These sculptures treat play as research and material as memory. Cast in concrete from dissolvable 3D-printed molds, each form carries the trace of its making; layered resolution, surface artifacts, and moments that flirt with failure as fabrication parameters shift. The work emerges from studies of cellular subdivision, catenary curves, and thickness; exploring how geometry, gravity, and material resistance negotiate form.
Subdivision is pushed across protruding geometries until casting begins to break down; revealing thresholds where precision collapses as concrete stiffens before reaching deeper cavities. Catenary curves are stretched and compressed as if gravity were object-oriented; generating forms shaped by force rather than appearance. Thickness becomes a tool to test structural distribution and material logic.
Each piece is titled as a verb; Balancing, Projecting, Blending, Locking, and Introspecting; emphasizing action over object. Wood bases are either hand-sanded or digitally scanned and carved to fit, extending the dialogue between digital precision and handmade adjustment.






