Evanescence is a durational sculpture that explores how individual identities gradually merge into a shared form. The artwork is not the object itself, but the process through which it unfolds. It captures visitors’ faces, extracts their facial profiles in real time, and translates these protruding contours into mathematical data. These profiles are then mechanically carved into a rotating cylinder of clay.

As the exhibition progresses, earlier faces are slowly overwritten by those that follow. Each participant leaves a physical imprint, yet no single face is preserved. The sculpture continuously reshapes itself, forming a composite face that feels familiar but remains unidentifiable. Collective identity emerges through accumulation and erosion, and singular features exist only temporarily before blending into the whole.

The work deliberately resists likeness. The face, a primary marker of identity within social and computational systems, is reduced to geometry, and subjected to repetition, overlap, and erasure. Identity is not captured or stored, but kept in motion through material transformation.

Informed by Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of the Body Without Organs, the project imagines a body freed from fixed structures and stable meaning. What emerges is not a unified figure, but a heterogeneous body shaped by coexistence: fluid, unstable, and continuously becoming.