Untitled from series "Ghosts"

Vaisilisa, art-curator

— In his Ghosts series, Alexey Martins constructs haunting architectural forms that exist between material presence and digital abstraction. The sculpture, composed of stacked wooden elements, rises in jagged verticals like pixelated echoes of a vanished structure or organism. Its stepped geometry recalls both data visualization and the ruins of modern industry—an artifact caught between the physical and the virtual.

Martins translates the aesthetics of the digital world into tangible matter, reimagining pixels as building blocks of memory and loss. The sculpture’s blackened surface absorbs light, rendering its contours elusive and shifting as the viewer moves around it. The work embodies a sense of disappearance—an image solidified just before it fades into the void.

Ghosts reflects Martins’ ongoing exploration of post-industrial landscapes and digital perception. Through the repetition of modular forms, he exposes the tension between permanence and decay, presence and erasure. The result is both monument and phantom: a spectral reminder of how technology reshapes not only space, but our very sense of existence.