Faucet (2023)

Faucet is a set of interactive sculptures created in 2023, part of the ongoing series Prepared Screen (2012-), through which cellulose elements are placed on top of a television that emits white light. Polarizing filters are made available so that visitors can interact with these materials in a demonstration of cross-polarization, an optical phenomenon that occurs when the direction of the light's electric field changes when interacting with certain surfaces. Faucet #1 was part of More Abstract, presented at Portas Vilaseca. Whenever a Faucet is on view, photographic records are made documenting the public's interaction with the work, which are then minted as semi-fungible tokens in the ERC-1155 standard that can be collected for free. Pedro Victor Brandão, 2023