The void also has weight

"The Void Also Has Weight" investigates the paradoxical materiality of voile—a fabric that, being almost nothing, manages to give form to the invisible.

The series originates from a domestic, almost absentminded gesture that my mother began to repeat: folding fabrics and fruit nets that came from the market. Scattered around the house, these fragments seemed to contain a strange solemnity, as if a will to form, a sculptural thought, insinuated itself between the folds. No piece was planned, and none lasted; they existed until the space needed to be cleaned, or the fabric resumed its common use.

In the sculptures, the voile folds, tenses, and breathes, converting lightness into monument. The void then acquires one of the fundamental properties of matter: weight.

Each curve, each interval between the fabrics, reverberates the inaugural gesture—the desire to give form to the ephemeral, to sculpt the invisible, to contemplate, even if only for moments, the nature of matter and the density of the void itself.

Emptiness also has weight. Dariane Martiól and Adair Martiól, 2025 — Sculpture. Voile and wire. Variable dimensions.