Pep Vidal · artist / scientist

Infinitesimal
Changes

Every system changes continuously. Most of those changes are too small to perceive. My work investigates the moment when they become visible.

One research. Multiple forms.

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small changes accumulate

Selected works

Five recent projects in which systems are opened, sampled, cultivated, dismantled and rebuilt.

Schrödinger's piano installation

Schrödinger's piano

2024system / dissection / observation

1,327 components from a nineteenth-century piano, opened into an inventory of relations.

Rivers inside Rivers

Rivers inside Rivers

2025water / scale / systems

Four waters from one hydrological system, presented separately while remaining materially connected.

Palíndrom installation at Centre d'Art La Panera

Palíndrom

2025archive / studio / time

A cabin built from the accumulated matter of a practice, folded back onto a thesis written eleven years earlier.

I, de sobte, l'atzar collaborative water archive

I, de sobte, l'atzar

2025–2028water / territory / collaboration

A collective portrait of territory made through collected waters, maps and a growing travelling archive.

Jardí de Creences installation in Vic

Jardí de Creences

2024–2025plants / belief / coexistence

A living, collaborative garden linking botanical memory, religious traditions and four sites in Vic.

Ways of looking

The works change form, but the questions remain close: how to observe a system without pretending it is still; how to measure without erasing experience.

Observation

Looking long enough for a difference to become perceptible.

Measurement

Using quantities as tools, not as replacements for experience.

Time

Following processes before and after the instant usually called the event.

Systems

Opening wholes into parts, flows, dependencies and feedback.

Documentation

Treating notes, inventories and traces as material forms of research.

Ongoing research
Nothing is static. A system is only a temporary arrangement of relations.