A grande obra (The great work) is a scenographic-like installation of a workspace -- a desk withstanding various objects and materials, such as basalt, iron, copper, bottles containing volcanic sand, different kinds of oils, various vessels made out of metal and glass, some of which are lab material, and eggs in diverse stages of transmutation; an empty chair, and a stool withstanding a plant vase. The activity performed here is not completely clear to the viewer, but it does suggest some kind of mystical and/or magical practice.

This project began as a selfless research on the aims and practices of alchemists but ended up focusing on the worldview according to which natural materials and processes were magically charged, undergoing forces of transformation beyond human comprehension. My keen interest is precisely this possibility of looking back at processes and phenomena as mysterious and unimaginable, oppositely to the science-based approach according to which every process is nothing but a product of rationally framed and understandable laws.