Heaving Stone, Winged Dream, 2026 (TBA)
Through an interplay of sculpture, video, sound, lithography, and mixed media, Heaving Stone, Winged Dream (2026) explores a desire for solidification in response to the fluid grief of ambiguous loss. Engaging with the cave as both a site and a living entity 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.
Katabasis (2026, loop) traces a descent into and out of a cave. The video installation renders the cave as a living entity — advancing and receding in slow succession, breathing. Field recordings made on site form the core of the soundscape, developed in collaboration with sound designer Pablo Sanchez. The work explores the threshold between presence and absence — moving between weight and release, the familiar briefly surfacing, then withdrawn.
Katabasis, 2026. Video still.