Industry produced objects are extremely vulnerable as they are consistently discarded by humans. Both humans and goods become victims of consumption culture. These discarded objects eventually end up being destroyed and melted together, leading to a state of entropy. However, with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence, these objects manage to organize a new form of life for themselves.

My question is: What does an object experience when it undergoes transmutation and returns to being part of the cycle of life and the universe? Does it retain any memory of its previous existence? In 2014, for an installation at the MAXXI Museum in Rome, I made a registry census of thousands of various plastic objects that could potentially be discarded after use. At CYFEST in Yerevan, I presented all these thousands of objects after their transmutation. — Maria Cristina Finucci