Gio Montez sculpted a monumental candle from 60 kilograms of beeswax for the biennial of light culture, allowing fire and hand to shape it together. The work emphasized process over product: visitors witnessed the candle’s gradual transformation while the artist remained on site, carving as it slowly burned.
Revisited in later editions of the biennial, the piece remains unfinished, a meditation on time, materiality, and the interplay between human action and elemental forces, highlighting Montez’s focus on art as an evolving, lived experience.