Mapping the void

The work is rooted in my personal experience of frequent relocations during childhood and adolescence, which significantly shaped my relationship with space, objects, and memory. The constant need to move and reduce the number of belongings led me to reassess their value, not just materially, but emotionally as well. This process has influenced my current approach to minimalism, sorting, and the ongoing selection of what to keep and what to let go.

I translate this theme into material and form. I work with plaster blocks that symbolize stability, rationality, and architectural foundation. These solid, clearly defined forms are gradually disrupted using an industrial sandblaster, creating organic paths and tunnels. This process serves as a metaphor for the transformation of memories, just as some layers fade in the mind, others resurface, revealing new connections.

Through sandblasting, I am not only removing material but actively reshaping the objects, much like the conscious sorting of memories and belongings when adapting to a new environment. I intervene in stable forms and disturb them, creating a dialogue between control and loss, solidity and fragility. The pathways and tunnels within the objects may resemble a map of movement, a visual representation of the journeys I have taken, the places I have left behind, and the internal trajectories of thought.

Material: plaster

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