Go With The Flood

Go With the Flood is a contemporary sculpture by Antwerp-based artist Marius Ritiu that explores material transformation, cosmic imagery and sculptural narrative through hand-crafted processes. Shaped from hand-hammered copper, the work resembles a surfboard that appears to have travelled across interstellar space, carrying the scarred surface and enigmatic presence of a meteorite. Hovering between sporting equipment and celestial fragment, the sculpture blurs the distinction between the manufactured and the primordial, suggesting an object that has been forged as much by cosmic forces as by human hands. Its hammered copper skin captures light like a weathered asteroid while preserving the physical memory of every strike, embedding the gestures of making within its surface. The title, Go With the Flood, evokes currents that extend beyond oceans into the vast flows of space, time and gravity, inviting reflection on movement as a universal condition. Neither entirely terrestrial nor fully extraterrestrial, the sculpture proposes a poetic journey where surfing becomes a metaphor for navigating the unknown, riding invisible waves that connect the Earth to the wider cosmos. It is both an object of adventure and contemplation, encouraging viewers to imagine travel not only across water, but through the immeasurable expanse of the universe.