Vision determines how we interact with our physical environment and what we perceive from this sense can result in many different interpretations. Quast’s work simply aims to reveal how some of the most important thinking of our time can get lost in translation due to the influence of constructed systems that create detached perceptions of the physical world. In this, he draws stark comparisons between the physics which comprises the universe and the constructed paradoxes which our civilisation has developed in order to function.

Quast’s practice is predominately installation/ sculpture and appropriates difficult-to-calculate physics, which compose the naturally ordered world around us, to analyse our civilisations formulated social structures. These complicated phenomena, which form the basis for building the universe, remain mostly hidden from human perceptions due to our physically narrow field of sensing when interacting with our environment. Quast is interested in the process of exploiting the hidden framework behind this concealed world to create work that socially challenges our civilisation’s manufactured fabric whilst, in the process, making visible these governing forces. He is specifically interested in the shepherded notion of the term ‘success’ within the modern zeitgeist and political landscape- specifically what this word has now become to denote in the current, consumerist-driven era.

Physics (and Science in general) is based upon an unbiased system which utilises a series of approximations to create hypotheses in order to explain how the world around us functions. This system is continuously re-evaluating in order to define phenomenon to the best of human perception and comprehension. It is based on a series of approximations which have been tested to support theories but can be rectified at any time to facilitate a more logical understanding. Using this aspect of physics, Quast compare these evolving processes to the financial and consumerist markets which function on exact figures, not approximations. ‘Success’ in these inherent systems is seen to depend on accumulation and the ability to persuade people to make decisions which are inevitably backed by falsified information. Markets are continuously billed as recovering despite the increases in poverty, emigration and bankruptcy, politicians are supplied falsified figures in order to make decisions concerning the faith of the country and the financial system is increasingly heading towards its demise. In essence, these systems have developed an abstracted, detached way in which we react to the naturally sophisticated and yet complicated world around us. It is this detachment paradigm which Quast’s work aims to analyse in order to emphasise the beauty underlining the constituted fabric of the universe and, as a direct result, question how we as bio-chemical beings interact within its boundaries