Epoxy Sculpture #15 (shell white/purple)

Wanting to unequivocally reshape her own life as well as her surroundings, Danai Anesiadou attempts to alchemize the entirety of her material possessions into a series of sculptures that are doing rather than being: by encasing exuberant assemblages of her personal belongings, recycled metal shavings, and crystals in resin, she converts them into orgonites. Originating from the theories of psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich (1897–1957), orgonites are energy-transforming wellness devices intended to capture a cosmic ‘orgone’ current, neutralize electromagnetic frequencies, transmute this energy into positive life force, and disperse it. This unique sculpture in the form of a shell does not preserve life forms but lived time. The objects inside were part of everyday use, and by being encapsulated, they are flash-frozen at a precise point in time. Their use stops; their future is interrupted; their past becomes fixed. What is held is not a story or a memory, but the exact moment the sequence breaks. The work was produced for her solo exhibition, “D POSSESSIONS,” at WIELS in Brussels (2023) and the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens (2023–2024).