"Impāctus" reinterprets the classical Memento Mori through the prism of voyeurism, digital mediation and brutality. The device showcases the remains of a mosquito—smashed on a stucco wall and endlessly revolving under a microscope.
Unlike traditional symbols of slow decay—this demise is sudden, brutal, and unequivocal.
The work compels us to confront mortality not as a slow erosion but as a moment : an instant of rupture, the inevitable crossing from life to death.
By magnifying this moment and streaming it live, Impāctus stretches a second into an eternal loop, turning the ephemeral into a spectacle of remembrance.
There is a tension between scale and significance. The insect, insignificant in mass, emphasizes under the microscope. Its body, crushed and illuminated, serves as a relic—a relic not only of death but of the act of dying violently. The screen becomes both shrine and monitoring, suggesting that even death may not be private.
The work is a reflection on an inescapable fate.

Mixed media ; microscope apparatus, live video feed, stainless steel, glass, RPI).