2025
Test Tiles
Sculptures
Title Test tiles
Year 2025
Material Clay, Copper Sulfate, Racomitrium microcarpon, Borax, Slime mould
Size 17 x 17 x 9 cm
Sound installation
Title How to read character in the face and to detemine the capacity for love, business or crime
Year 2025
Material Book: Physiognomy by Leila Holt 1864, Text-to-speech algorithm, Bone conduction speaker, Aluminium
Duration 8:31 minutes
Title Test tiles
Year 2025
Material Clay, Copper Sulfate, Racomitrium microcarpon, Borax, Slime mould
Size 17 x 17 x 9 cm
Sound installation
Title How to read character in the face and to detemine the capacity for love, business or crime
Year 2025
Material Book: Physiognomy by Leila Holt 1864, Text-to-speech algorithm, Bone conduction speaker, Aluminium
Duration 8:31 minutes
Traditionally, test tiles are part of the artistic act of measuring, comparing, and selecting, that usually remains invisible. They are tools of judgment in the studio, determining what material is deemed worthy of the final piece. Kind replaces these tiles with ears, applying the logic of measuring and selecting clay and glaze to the anatomy of the human body.
Ears carry a long scientific history of being read to define a persons’ character, intelligence and moral worth. Till today, ears remain an identifyer in biometric surveillance systems now automated. Kind stages this continuity by matching the test tiles-as-ears with an 18th-century physiognomy manual read aloud by a child’s voice; a pseudoscience that claimed to define meaning from an ear’s size, countour, folds, helix, lobe, antitragus, angle and color.
Read together, the tiles and the recitation expose how easily subjective judgment is dressed up as procedure, conditions that allow such logics to become instruments for political and ideological control.
