Liquid Solid inspires a journey looking back into the past to form a vision of the future that unites the human, the technological and the elemental. Nassia treats the desert sand, as a liquid solid, to reveal beyond the phenomenological solidity of the pyramids, their liquid essence.

An essence that holds evidence of living with a porous membrane between the natural and supernatural, in which the Ancient Egyptians understood their existence as a critical element in the balance of the universe, defying the boundaries of human endeavour and transforming their world with eternal relevance. As a Greek artist, and as the Ancient Greeks did before her, Nassia draws upon the sophistication of the early technological – art ( / techni) and science ( / logia) – advancements of the Ancient Egyptians in their ingenious crafting of the elements in their landscape, so as to defy gravity and friction and fluidly shift millions of tonnes of stone over liquid water and granules of sand into perfect geometry of monumental scale.

Nassia combines the native elements with materials used in NASA’s Voyagers, such as aluminium honeycomb, sculpting an encounter of past, present, and future in humanity’s ancient quest for immortality and desire to transcend time. ‘Man Fears Time and Time Fears the Pyramids.’ The monument of the future will not be defined by permanence but by impermanence, and timeless resilience will be found in the ephemeral and the capacity to adapt as we rediscover our role in nature, even beyond earth.