Redemption Act

Redemption Act presents matter at the threshold where biological life, nourishment, and value converge. The fish appears not as representation, but as substance subjected to the operations that sustain human existence: extraction, consumption, exchange, and redistribution. Its body persists through these transitions, shifting from organism to food, from food to commodity, and from commodity to remnant, without ceasing to exist materially.

The presence of currency introduces the structures through which survival becomes regulated and abstracted. Flesh and value occupy the same plane, revealing the continuity between biological necessity and economic systems. The horn, detached from its originating body, remains as residue of animal force reorganized within human space. These materials do not symbolize transformation; they undergo it.

Photography operates here as a constructive act that arrests matter within precise configurations. Through isolation, saturation, and confrontation, the images suspend objects outside their functional environments, allowing their condition as irreducible substance to emerge. Color functions as a stabilizing field, intensifying presence while stripping away narrative contingency.

Redemption does not appear as purification or transcendence, but as persistence. Nothing disappears. Matter endures by changing form, position, and function. The consumed body remains present as material, reorganized within new structures. The images reveal redemption as an intrinsic condition of matter itself, observable within the irreversible processes through which existence is sustained.