Installation view, H:150cm
ALDI market cart, plastic bags, wine bottle caps, sun umbrellas, wires, felt, pulleys
Untitled, 2022. 30x30x5cm Adhesive polyethylene stickers, acrylic sheets, 3D printing resinsThe artist sees themselves as a modern hunter-gatherer, fostering an intimate connection with objects not as consumable products but as essential, physical entities. Gathering becomes a way of life—a practice rooted in fluidity and adaptability. Growing up in a socialist country, The artist finds in this fluid approach a means of resisting stability and control. Objects, imbued with energy, become mirrors reflecting their individuality and connection to tradition.
Upon encountering American consumerism, they were struck by its reductive attitude toward objects, which deepened their resolve to explore the interplay between Marxism's ghost and the fetishism of commodities. Drawing on animism and rituality, their work interrogates the supermarket—a dominant site of advertisement and consumption—as a stage where witchcraft and fetishism intersect. Inspired by the Frankfurt School and the Cyborg Manifesto, they seek to counteract the oversimplification of interactions between humans, objects, and animals, proposing instead a web of interconnected relationships grounded in energy, ritual, and reflection.
Upon encountering American consumerism, they were struck by its reductive attitude toward objects, which deepened their resolve to explore the interplay between Marxism's ghost and the fetishism of commodities. Drawing on animism and rituality, their work interrogates the supermarket—a dominant site of advertisement and consumption—as a stage where witchcraft and fetishism intersect. Inspired by the Frankfurt School and the Cyborg Manifesto, they seek to counteract the oversimplification of interactions between humans, objects, and animals, proposing instead a web of interconnected relationships grounded in energy, ritual, and reflection.