The work This Is Not a Game reflects the theme of childhood unfolding in an environment that appears safe on the surface but is, in reality, often ambivalent or even hostile. It consists of an authentic segment of a children's climbing frame, an iconic artifact of the collective memory of generations, evoking play, growth, community, and home. However, this familiar and intimate form is deformed, thrown off balance, suggesting that not everything that appears playful and innocent truly is.

The interior of the object, made visible precisely through this deformation, reveals something dark, organically shaped forms evoking body parts, growths, or the presence of parasitic entities. These elements symbolize the toxic influences of society, individuals who have no place in a child's world, yet manage to infiltrate it. The object is embedded in a mound of sand, evoking both a playground and a sense of isolation. Thus, the narrative of the climbing frame as a space for play is transformed into a confrontational monument.

Part of the installation is a horizontal element, covered with a latex membrane. At its center, the membrane forms a protrusion resembling a bodily shape, evoking something from the adult world, something latently present yet beyond a child’s understanding. Here, latex acts as a filtering surface, it conceals and reveals, creating tension between corporeality and ignorance, between protection and threat.

Material: metal, silicone, latex, sand