Fragile Futures Exhibition

Fragile Futures is an ongoing sculptural exhibition exploring the paradox of the Anthropocene: we preserve and admire nature through systems that contribute to its fragility. Beauty draws viewers in before revealing the material tensions that shape the futures we are collectively creating.

Exhibition Overview

Fragile Futures began as an exploration of marine form and evolved into a material inquiry. The processes used to fabricate the works — including 3D printing — revealed an accumulation of residue: failed prints, supports, and excess material.

Rather than hide this by-product, the exhibition brings it into view.

Material is treated as evidence. The same systems that enable preservation and precision also generate waste.

Visitors move through a calibrated progression. Ordered, familiar forms invite attention. Gradually, that order shifts. What first appears contemplative begins to disclose the conditions of its making — asking how contemporary production shapes the ecological futures already in formation.

Exhibition Structure

  • Zone 1 — The Lure of Beauty

    • Ordered, restrained marine forms establish familiarity and aesthetic coherence.
    • Beauty operates as the entry condition.

  • Zone 2 — Consequence

    • Material residue becomes visible.
    • Accumulation replaces order.
    • The by-products of fabrication move to the foreground.

  • Zone 3 — Uncertain Futures

    • Light, absence, and instability signal a shifting horizon.
    • The exhibition moves from preservation toward reflection.

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Selected Works

Lions Mane jellyfish
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Artist Context

Fragile Futures sits within Dina Goebel’s broader sculptural practice, which examines the material consequences of contemporary production. Working with 3D printing processes and repurposed fabrication waste, her work interrogates the systems through which objects are made, consumed, and preserved.

Across independent exhibitions and long-term projects, Goebel’s practice has consistently engaged environmental themes, exploring how aesthetic order can operate as both invitation and critique.

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Fragile Futures is available for exhibition and curatorial collaboration. Installation documentation and specifications are available upon request. For all enquiries, please visit the Contact page.

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