Temporal Disintegration

In Temporal Disintegration, Filmus presents a haunting meditation on the psychological and structural collapse induced by trauma and war. Initiated in the aftermath of violent conflict, this body of work takes its name from the clinical term temporal disintegration—a condition associated with post-traumatic stress in which an individual’s perception of time becomes fragmented or non-linear, disrupting the cohesion of past, present, and future. This sense of disorientation permeates the series both thematically and materially.

Rendered entirely in black glass, the sculptures evoke a visual language of ruin and residue. Glass—chosen for its paradoxical qualities of permanence and fragility—becomes a conduit for expressing the dualities of trauma: the visible and invisible, the physical and the psychological, the enduring and the transient.

Filmus uses the lost wax casting method, sculpting forms in wax that are melted away and replaced by molten glass. The process leaves behind not only a precise impression but a metaphorical absence—an echo of what once existed.

The body appears throughout the series—fragmented, burdened, dissolving—set against collapsing architectural elements. Cinder blocks ooze and slump like organic matter; ornamental frames sag and melt, resisting their own structure. These works suggest not only the breakdown of physical forms but the erosion of memory, identity, and stability.

In Temporal Disintegration, Filmus examines the collapse of both internal and external architectures—the spaces we inhabit and the bodies we occupy—offering a visceral reflection on trauma’s impact and the disintegration of certainty in the face of profound rupture.