Tension Engine
A speculative 3D study that visualizes a fictional exercise machine assembled from multiple gym components. Rather than streamlining movement, this sculpture entangles force, friction and absurd repetition into an opaque training logic.
Creative Direction:
gezeisel.studio
Role:
3D Artist
Year:
2025
Imagining a fitness machine that builds resistance without direction
This fictional training apparatus explores the poetics of inefficiency: a hypertrophied sculptural object composed of overlapping weight machines, tangled pulleys, and duplicated motion paths. Rendered in photorealistic detail with high-contrast lighting, the visual composition draws on fitness aesthetics, modularity, and the cultural symbolism of self-optimization.
Instead of increasing performance, the machine resists legibility, its logic loops back on itself, suggesting a regime of endless repetition without clear purpose or result. As an anti-workout device, it questions the techno-utopian promise of quantifiable improvement and instead celebrates entanglement, exertion and the absurd beauty of failing productively.
Uncommissioned and self-initiated, tension engine operates as both a formal lighting study and a playful critique of optimization culture.
Tension Engine
A speculative 3D study that visualizes a fictional exercise machine assembled from multiple gym components. Rather than streamlining movement, this sculpture entangles force, friction and absurd repetition into an opaque training logic.
Creative Direction:
gezeisel.studio
Role:
3D Artist
Year:
2025
Imagining a fitness machine that builds resistance without direction
This fictional training apparatus explores the poetics of inefficiency: a hypertrophied sculptural object composed of overlapping weight machines, tangled pulleys, and duplicated motion paths. Rendered in photorealistic detail with high-contrast lighting, the visual composition draws on fitness aesthetics, modularity, and the cultural symbolism of self-optimization.
Instead of increasing performance, the machine resists legibility, its logic loops back on itself, suggesting a regime of endless repetition without clear purpose or result. As an anti-workout device, it questions the techno-utopian promise of quantifiable improvement and instead celebrates entanglement, exertion and the absurd beauty of failing productively.
Uncommissioned and self-initiated, tension engine operates as both a formal lighting study and a playful critique of optimization culture.
Tension Engine
A speculative 3D study that visualizes a fictional exercise machine assembled from multiple gym components. Rather than streamlining movement, this sculpture entangles force, friction and absurd repetition into an opaque training logic.
Creative Direction:
gezeisel.studio
Role:
3D Artist
Year:
2025
Imagining a fitness machine that builds resistance without direction
This fictional training apparatus explores the poetics of inefficiency: a hypertrophied sculptural object composed of overlapping weight machines, tangled pulleys, and duplicated motion paths. Rendered in photorealistic detail with high-contrast lighting, the visual composition draws on fitness aesthetics, modularity, and the cultural symbolism of self-optimization.
Instead of increasing performance, the machine resists legibility, its logic loops back on itself, suggesting a regime of endless repetition without clear purpose or result. As an anti-workout device, it questions the techno-utopian promise of quantifiable improvement and instead celebrates entanglement, exertion and the absurd beauty of failing productively.
Uncommissioned and self-initiated, tension engine operates as both a formal lighting study and a playful critique of optimization culture.
Tension Engine
A speculative 3D study that visualizes a fictional exercise machine assembled from multiple gym components. Rather than streamlining movement, this sculpture entangles force, friction and absurd repetition into an opaque training logic.
Creative Direction:
gezeisel.studio
Role:
3D Artist
Year:
2025
Imagining a fitness machine that builds resistance without direction
This fictional training apparatus explores the poetics of inefficiency: a hypertrophied sculptural object composed of overlapping weight machines, tangled pulleys, and duplicated motion paths. Rendered in photorealistic detail with high-contrast lighting, the visual composition draws on fitness aesthetics, modularity, and the cultural symbolism of self-optimization.
Instead of increasing performance, the machine resists legibility, its logic loops back on itself, suggesting a regime of endless repetition without clear purpose or result. As an anti-workout device, it questions the techno-utopian promise of quantifiable improvement and instead celebrates entanglement, exertion and the absurd beauty of failing productively.
Uncommissioned and self-initiated, tension engine operates as both a formal lighting study and a playful critique of optimization culture.
