
The Last Wave is a kinetic installation composed of two monumental frame drums, suspended in separate rooms. Hanging from the ceiling at a height of nearly two and a half meters, the drums are set into slow, rhythmic motion by linear actuators, their movement gentle yet persistent like the breath of the sea.
On both sides, the stretched membranes conceal small metallic spheres, grains of sea sand, pebbles, and shells. As the drums begin to move, these fragments of the shore roll and whisper across the surface, recreating the murmur of waves and the shifting rhythm of tides. The room becomes a resonant vessel - a space where motion transforms into sound, and sound into memory.
The installation unfolds in two atmospheres - cold and warm, stillness and pulse.
In the first room, awash in blue-white light, the sea is hushed and distant. The frozen calm of winter lingers in the air, carrying the quiet rhythm of nature at rest. The sound of the waves reaches the ear as an echo from afar, as if remembered rather than heard.
In the second room, light turns golden and alive - the radiance of summer, the shimmer of sun on restless water. The mechanical rhythm grows more insistent, evoking the warmth that revives the sea and stirs it into motion.
Between these two worlds, a dialogue unfolds - the same sound in two moods, the same sea breathing through two seasons.
At its heart, the Last Wave seeks to preserve the voice of the sea through material memory. It captures the fragile beauty of what moves and disappears - a mechanical sea that remembers, and a sound that endures even as the water fades away.