Wrench, Disabled — Held in Equilibrium

Door Christophe Muylaert, 2026

40cm x 50cm

A steel wrench is fixed horizontally and supported at a single oblique point. Both functional ends are encapsulated in transparent epoxy blocks, rendering the tool permanently inoperable while preserving its form. The object is held in a state of balance that appears stable yet contingent, as if dependent on a minimal and potentially arbitrary condition. The work stages a contradiction between use and suspension. The wrench, an instrument of torque and intervention, is deprived of its capacity to act. Its ends are archived rather than erased: function persists as a visible but inaccessible possibility. The support does not simply carry the object; it defines the precise condition under which it can exist at all. Equilibrium here is not a neutral state but a constraint. What is presented is a system in which access is implied but structurally denied, and where causality appears evident while remaining unverified.

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