FILIP ROCA

FRACTURE POINT

INFO / CREDITS
YEAR: 2025 FORMAT: Media Architecture DURATION: 15 minutes LOCATION: NEMO Science Museum COMMISION: Amsterdam Light Festival
ARTWORK: Filip Roca SOUNDSCAPE: Zarko Komar
CURATION: Pam Toonen, Christopher Grabski PRODUCTION: Guillermo Palacois PROJECTIONIST: Walter Van Maris 3D SCAN: Leap 3D 3D MODELING: Planet X FOOTAGE: Arjen Van Eijk, Xinix Film, Alek Riquelme
DESCRIPTION

This work comes from a contrast I feel deeply. We’ve made so much progress, yet we keep repeating the same patterns. In a world full of conflict and polarization, I often ask myself whether we’re actually evolving or just moving in circles, shaped by what we believe.

What interests me is that subtle moment when something starts to break apart, and space opens up for something new. Science keeps evolving through constant testing and proof, but many of the ideas we carry are inherited and unquestioned. They stay fixed while everything else moves forward.

That tension is at the core of Fracture Point, a 15-minute projection mapping work created for the NEMO Science Museum in Amsterdam. What unfolds across the façade is a visual metaphor for the moment when outdated systems begin to crack and something else pushes through. Through tension, rupture, and shifting geometries, the piece looks at how real progress takes more than innovation. It asks us to let go.