


ID Flag, 2023

Shroud Flag, 2023



Bent, 2023
Promised Land is an ongoing project in which the symbols of a nation and objects found in government offices undergo intervention with various liquids, leaving permanent traces in them. These marks serve as references to the obligations individuals must fulfill to gain access to a nation's system of offices for identification, finance etc. These interventions on the materials are inspired by the economy of corporeal fluids presented in the XVI-century one-sex-model theory. This theory, which considered the body to have its system of retention and release of fluids for the optimal state of the body, viewed all bodily fluids not only as variations of a single-sex but also as regulators of the state of the physical and emotional body.
The economy of corporeal fluids emphasizes the constant flow of liquids in and out of the body. In Promised Land, the stagnation, hardening, and vaporization of liquids are used to symbolize the distress of the emotional body caused by bureaucracy. The resulting objects aim to expose the invisibility of the internal affects shared collectively but experienced intimately or privately, with the tailored identities in symbols of nations.
Installation for Tulumt, graduation exhibition from the Sculpture Department of Kunsthochschule Berlin- Weissensee, Alte Münze
Berlin, 2023.