Antifrágil

As proposed by Nicolas Nasim Taleb, there is no word for the exact opposite of fragile, the idea of antifragile goes beyond resilience and robustness. While resilient systems can withstand and recover from negative shocks, and robust systems can withstand them without significant damage, antifragile systems become stronger and evolve positively through adversity. The notion of antifragility suggests an ability not only to resist chaos, but to harness it as a driving force for growth and continuous improvement. There are things that benefit from crises; they thrive and grow by being exposed to volatility, randomness, disorder and stressors.

This installation is composed of concrete spheres with a thickness of approximately one millimeter and a diameter of approximately 15 to 35 cm that are arranged on the ground.

Unlike the solid concrete structures with which the buildings are constructed, the spheres, empty inside, become fragile bodies that with the interaction with the public tend to break, that is, although when the exhibition begins, the spheres are complete, with the interaction of the public, they break and decompose the sphere into shells throughout the duration of the exhibition. It is an installation in constant change according to the deterioration it undergoes as the viewer interacts with it.

The installation seeks to question us about the fragility of human constructions and how engineering advances, progress and development that seem immovable are actually fragile and unstable.

Concrete refers in our imaginary to the solid, the hard and the stable and is a reflection of how we understand our constructions. Mass production translates into the use of molds to build these serial forms.