“Sanctuary of Becoming” is an immersive installation that explores emotional transformation through material, form, and spatial experience. Built with mycelium-based architectural components, it creates a contemplative, organic environment — part shelter, part altar — where time, decay, and growth are rendered visible.
Suspended from the ceiling is a series of ceramic heads, each sculpted with a distinct emotional expression. These figurative forms evoke fragmented states of the self: grief, wonder, longing, restraint. Among them hangs a single animatronic head, nearly indistinguishable at first glance. It moves with subtle gestures — tilting, blinking, shifting expressions — serving as a technological counterpart to its ceramic constructs. This quiet motion invites reflection on the boundaries between human and artificial, permanence and simulation, emotion and mimicry.
A collaboration between artist Ciane Xavier and Homeqube, the work unites figurative sculpture, biomaterial architecture, and system-based spatial design. It proposes a space for stillness and reflection, where transformation unfolds quietly rather than dramatically. Visitors are invited to walk through the space and move among these suspended bodies, viewing them from below, beside, and above. The sanctuary becomes a physical manifestation of becoming: an emotional and spatial process rather than a fixed identity.
Brazilian-born, Philippines-based visual artist Ciane Xavier works at the intersection of sculpture, technology, and emotional embodiment. Her multidisciplinary practice blends traditional materials such as ceramics with emerging technologies including animatronics and biomaterials. Through a figurative and surreal lens, she investigates themes of identity, transformation, and the fragmentation of the self. Xavier’s sculptures often depict emotion-laden human forms — distorted, suspended, or caught in the process of becoming — inviting reflection on vulnerability, hybridity, and spiritual evolution.
Homeqube is a modular architectural platform committed to reshaping the future of design and construction through generative workflows, prefabricated structural components, and sustainable material strategies. With a focus on decentralisation and adaptability, Homeqube supports projects that unite spatial systems with environmental awareness and creative experimentation.
Together, Ciane Xavier and Homeqube present Sanctuary of Becoming, an immersive sculptural environment composed of mycelium-built architectural forms, suspended ceramic heads, and a singular animatronic presence. This sanctuary offers a contemplative space for transformation, evoking the fragmented emotional states we experience as we move through our journeys of becoming.
Ciane Xavier
Homeqube