Soil Archive
Eros Menz
Antwerp
About
My practice centres on material agency, approaching materials as active forces shaped by transformation, erosion, decay, and accumulation. Rooted in a rural upbringing, I work with found objects and natural elements that carry place and lived history, using this materiality as a language to navigate interpersonal tensions and broader societal dynamics, moving between the intimate and the collective.
Project
This work holds a discarded printer on a stable structure encased in loam, its toner cartridges transformed into lights that slowly fade, as though the archive has been waiting for release.
The piece questions the intra-action of object and material within this assemblage, hinting at institutional decay.
The printer, once an agent of bureaucracy and the institution it served, salvaged after abandonment. It begins to act on its own terms, questioning the hierarchy it was once part of. Raised on scaffolding, it lifts itself from the ground becoming a supported object again, held rather than discarded.
The loam works as a breathing material, one that reacts and slowly transforms what it surrounds. It protects and presses at once, marking time through change, making the process of decay itself visible, ongoing, and alive.
