Wing Possibility is an audiovisual installation shown in a group exhibition at the Herbert Gallery (Coventry, UK) in July 2024.
A scenario both utopic and dystopic: a world built to imagine endless possibilities — body transformation, a broader sense of “is-ness”, a fresh earthliness.
What if humans stayed still and animals moved — sometimes beyond their natural character?
A first-person camera: the viewer becomes the traveller, new to this world, visiting and observing each immobile figure.
The wearables were designed to read as appendages of the figures rather than objects placed on them: organic forms meant to be compatible with human flesh and integrated into it.
For the leg wearable of one of the final figures I used Tissue, a computational-design add-on for Blender by Alessandro Zomparelli, to tessellate the form: one unit repeated across a base surface, each copy adapting to the surface it is mapped onto.
The choice is central to the design. Living tissue builds surfaces by the same logic, with cells that repeat and adapt to the form they cover. A tessellated wearable speaks the body’s own language of construction, so it reads as grown from the limb rather than attached to it.
The soundtrack, built around a lyre played in Anatolian scales and produced in Ableton, gives the world its otherworldly tone.
A preview of the longer soundtrack, composed before the visuals. Planül is my sound artist name.
Wing Possibility was shown in JOY… inspired by nature (July 2024), curated by Vortex Creates at the Herbert Art Gallery and Museum in Coventry. The open call was limited to UK residents; the curators made an exception for this Milan-based work.
The exhibition welcomed 9,712 visitors over nine weeks, and its drone tour reached 228,000 views. Writer Ruth Millington noted that its artworks “carry ecological messages lightly.”
Early figures from the gallery showed the same momentum: 2,471 visitors from the opening on 19 July (208 on the first day) to the end of Sunday 28 July, higher than average for Gallery 1 at that stage.
