The Magnetic Shaky Table Film

Nighttime photographs of the magnetic table/model, taken from the ceiling of the Berlin studio over the course of seven years. The Magnetic Shaky Table is a simple still-life scene that represents a collective subconscious in constant motion. Sasportas’s philosophical interest originates in the swamp of north-west Germany, from which she collected various materials and dried them in her studio, creating a conceptual still life that moved continuously, stopping only due to the active magnetic field generated by the inserted magnets.

The film depicts the dynamics of various components: magnetic stones, dried tree parts from the swamp with embedded magnets, electrified branches wrapped in wires, and felt ropes that act as drawing lines.

In Sasportas’s work, the swamp embodies an unprocessed, partly rejected part of nature that has not undergone cultural integration; at the same time, it serves as a gateway to the metaphysical dimension. The interplay between these two realms—the physical and the metaphysical—forms one of the central themes of Sasportas’s practice.