Ring of submission brings to life through a refrigerated machine placed in a full-scale boxing ring. In it, a life-size frozen human body molded on the artist is released at regular intervals. Rather than standing in an active position, this fighter is stuck on the ground, in a passive posture, a state of submission. He has no visible opponent. He simply submits to the surrounding context.
In this installation, water is transformed from a solid to liquid state in the presence of the public, like a slow and silent fight. This event is programmed to repeat itself over and over again. However, the system’s accuracy depends on the climate where the installation is placed. For it is the ambient temperature and heat from the public that accelerates this change in state. Once transformed to liquid, scattered and imperceptible, the water that remains is collected by the machine to be frozen again, then injected back into the boxing ring and dissolved in a repetitive cycle that is potentially infinite.