Created by MORAKANA (Tiri Kananuruk, Sebastián Morales Prado), Histolysis is a kinetic installation that engages nonhuman systems through attunement rather than control. Suspended above the floor, its root-like structure pulses with quiet, peristaltic motion.
Transformation unfolds not as spectacle, but as an infrastructural condition, gradual, distributed, and ongoing. The system resists resolution, remaining in a state of continuous reconfiguration that echoes the unstable, provisional nature of metamorphosis itself.
Morakana
The name Histolysis comes from the biological process by which tissues break down during metamorphosis. In this work, histolysis is a condition of dissolution that makes transformation possible, not as a loss but as potential. A moment of in-between where transformation is taking place, and the outcome is unknown.
What does it mean for a body to transform so completely that it forgets itself? Can a larva sense the winged form it will become? Does it recognize the adult as kin? The work asks whether belonging can stretch across stages of radical change, and whether identity can survive not through continuity but through adaptation.
Morakana
The sculpture is composed of twenty modular nodes with 3d-printed joins, comprised of custom designed PCBs with Esp32s, each a self-contained unit of motion and sensing. These modules connect magnetically, allowing the structure to be easily assembled, reconfigured, or expanded. The structure behaves less like a machine and more like a distributed body, where local actions ripple across the network in slow, coordinated waves.
Histolysis was first shown at the NEW INC – Creative Science Demo Festival earlier this year (2025).
