Heaving Stone, Winged Dream, 2026 (TBA)
Through an interplay of sculpture, video and painting, Heaving Stone, Winged Dream (2026) encounters the cave as a living archive, allegorically exploring ambiguous loss. Engaging with the cave as both a site and a being harbouring time, the work oscillates between the monumental and the fleeting. Echoing the ritual placement of a bear skull in Chauvet Cave, the ceramic sculpture Rite of Passage (2026) seeks a reclaimed agency: an act of petrification. It opens towards the work at large, entrusting memory to the cave, descending without resolution or arrival. Throughout, Heaving Stone, Winged Dream reaches for solace in the cave and its skin, an embrace that cannot hold.
Rite of Passage, 2026. Ceramic, Iron oxide, 38 x 17 x 17 cm.
Rooted in both archaeological and classical reference, Katabasis (2026, single channel 4K video, 5:35 min. loop) follows a ritual descent into and out of a cave in futile search of reunion. The cave seems alive, emerging and retreating in slow succession, breathing. Moving between weight and release, presence and absence, the familiar briefly surfaces and retreats again in a cycle without closure. Field recordings from the cave form the basis of the soundscape, developed in collaboration with sound designer NAKANO BLU.
Katabasis, 2026. Video still.
Katabasis, 2026. Video still.
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