‘What matters is the Degree of Sincerity’
2024
Unopened Rundgang HfG
GROW. Offenbach am Main, Germany
wooden panels , rigging, fabric, epoxy
515x150x203 cm
2024
Unopened Rundgang HfG
GROW. Offenbach am Main, Germany
wooden panels , rigging, fabric, epoxy
515x150x203 cm
The installation addresses the relationship between humans and animals, a space where attachment, observation, and power intersect. A series of wooden, dog-like figures are assembled from discarded panels, old cupboards, and doors. These “unnecessary” materials become bodies that retain traces of their former function and domestic history.
The work moves between playfulness and unease, between naïve curiosity and awkward knowledge. The podiums, draped in soft, almost theatrical fabrics, transform the scene into a space of observation, both an exhibition and a game, where the dogs become subjects of study and imagined participants in a ritual.
Through an ironic visual language that combines the roughness of a handmade construction with the tenderness of memory, the installation explores early encounters with corporeality, authority, and shame. The act of watching animals becomes a first lesson in the boundaries between the living and the social, between love and cruelty. Here, naivety turns into a tool for reflecting on how human perception of desire and power begins to take shape.
The work moves between playfulness and unease, between naïve curiosity and awkward knowledge. The podiums, draped in soft, almost theatrical fabrics, transform the scene into a space of observation, both an exhibition and a game, where the dogs become subjects of study and imagined participants in a ritual.
Through an ironic visual language that combines the roughness of a handmade construction with the tenderness of memory, the installation explores early encounters with corporeality, authority, and shame. The act of watching animals becomes a first lesson in the boundaries between the living and the social, between love and cruelty. Here, naivety turns into a tool for reflecting on how human perception of desire and power begins to take shape.