Tape Measure #2

Tape Measure #2

Tape Measuring #2 is a kinetic installation that explores the threshold of danger. It maintains a fragile balance between control and its loss, where risk endures as an ever-present, latent state—one that might emerge unexpectedly. Through this tension, it encourages viewers to reflect on the uneasy and shifting relationship between order and the everyday.

As a tool symbolizing rationality, standardization, and the establishment of order, the tape measure is rendered dysfunctional within the work. No longer a device for measuring the world, it instead becomes the object being measured and constrained. The tape’s collapsing and retraction resist full predictability, calling into question the values constructed upon precise logic. When everything is required to submit to accuracy and control—whether tool or individual—has true autonomy already been lost?