Ottone Radavi / Current Project
ongoing assembly  ·  temporary organisms keep changing bones
— current project —

Rebone organizm’os

2025-present / Participatory sculptural practice, construction game, modular system / Paris, France

White Rebone organizm'os bone-like joints connected through a spherical modular link
Project text

Rebone organizm'os is a participatory sculptural practice, construction game, and modular system made from bones, organs, viruses, joints, and abstract body fragments. Each element is digitally sculpted, resin 3D printed, and joined through a shared spherical connector, so the work never settles into one final form. It can become a skeleton, a temporary creature, a prosthetic structure, a wearable object, or a spatial composition.

White and purple Rebone organizm’os skeletal structure standing in a gallery corner
REBONE ORGANIZM'OS / MODULAR SKELETAL STRUCTURE / RESIN 3D PRINT
Black and translucent Rebone organizm’os skeletal structure assembled on a gallery floor
REBONE ORGANIZM'OS / TEMPORARY ORGANISM / SPHERICAL JOINT SYSTEM
Body as system

The project starts from a body that has already been taken apart. Its parts are recognizable, but they refuse anatomical obedience: pelvises become masks, bones become handles, organs become hinges, and viruses become decorative or structural agents. Rebone organizm'os treats the body as an open grammar, where injury, repair, mutation, and play can be composed with the same set of parts.

Black, white, and red Rebone organizm’os assemblage standing on a metal plinth
REBONE ORGANIZM'OS / TEMPORARY ORGANISMS / MODULAR ASSEMBLY
White Rebone organizm’os skeletal structure with a red organ element on a metal plinth
REBONE ORGANIZM'OS / SKELETAL STRUCTURE / ORGANS AND BONES
Material logic

The smooth resin surfaces and repeated joints make the sculptures feel both clinical and handmade: like medical models, toys, ritual objects, and construction parts at once. The system is precise enough to hold together, but loose enough to invite mistakes. A structure can stand, collapse, lean, hang, be carried, or be rebuilt into something that no longer resembles its previous version.

Black and translucent Rebone organizm’os assemblage on a metal plinth
REBONE ORGANIZM'OS / TEMPORARY ORGANISM / MODULAR ASSEMBLY
Hand holding a black and translucent Rebone organizm’os ring-like structure
REBONE ORGANIZM'OS / PARTICIPATORY ASSEMBLY / SPHERICAL JOINT SYSTEM
Participation

Visitors are not only looking at the work; they physically negotiate it. Every assembly is a temporary agreement between hands, balance, weight, desire, and the limits of the connector. This turns authorship into a shared action: the artist provides the anatomy and the rules of attachment, while each participant tests what kind of organism can exist for a few minutes before it changes again.

Close view of a black Rebone organizm'os joint with a red spherical connector
REBONE ORGANIZM'OS / RESONANT JOINT / DETAIL
Black Rebone organizm'os modular components spread on a metal surface
REBONE ORGANIZM'OS / BLACK MODULE FIELD / COMPONENTS