Though its sound suggests a sudden, almost guttural reflex, to grok names a mode of apprehension that slips beyond the bounds of logic – an attunement shaped by intuition and empathy. Beneath the gaze of an unresponsive eye and the tilt of a waiting figure, something carries on in its own way, and the grokking continues.
Raffaele Pola’s work is dedicated to exploring the autonomous evolution, preservation, and decay of systems. Rooted in sculpture and installation, he works with dead-end materials, found objects, and various scales of dust to create tactile, precarious assemblages that suggest both growth and disintegration. For the exhibition at P////AKT, he will present a reconfiguration of Emergence Threshold (2024), in combination with recent works. A text by Héloïse Chassepot accompanies the exhibition.
Pola graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in 2021 and is currently completing his Master degree in Sculpture at the HFBK Hamburg.
