In 2022, Alexandra Hunts conducted theoretical research on isolated quantum systems at the IsoQuant & Max Planck Institute in Germany. During six months there, she had access to leading scientists and was integrated into the scientific community. Her research focused on unpredictability and tipping points in free systems, and the theory of phase transition connecting atomic behavior to political and economic change. While she was in Heidelberg, an unpredictable event broke out in her home country of Ukraine, causing her research to merge with everyday survival. many body problem connects the theory of tipping points with the war and its global consequences, exploring the phase transition from Soviet state to democracy and the collapses it involves.

Alexandra Hunts explores how scientific, political, economic, and personal systems create friction, entangle, and collapse. She was born in Ukraine at the edge of the Soviet Union's collapse and later relocated to Western Europe. In dialogue with physicists, factory workers, soldiers, or machines, she translates correspondence, raw matter, or industrial detritus into sensorial installations that reveal the hidden labor behind power. Science and craft are, for her, not opposites but parallel ways of sensing and shaping the world. She continually returns to questions of legitimacy: who gets to define knowledge, what labor remains invisible, how do we measure impact in energy, attention, or memory? Her practice reassembles meaning from unstable, interrupted material, shaped by the quiet urgencies of war, migration, and the weight of history.