WORLDING
WITH NON-HUMANS
A series of collographs,
framed in reclaimed plastic packagings
and found canvas stretcher
Installation;
durational performance - 12 hours.
Uncasting of
1.5 years of plastic packaging waste from 1 domestic bin
into a new world. Open to participation without insisting. Instructions to participate inside or outside of Esoterraria-p:
Plastic wastes
Witness the everyday of human ways
Trusted and hated
In glue
In oceans
In artery bypass graft surgery
In human blood
A cube from a different time-space
Foreign as alien race
Transparent and laboured
Silent and traced
Beyond extrude, inject, mould
lies embodied tales of care, belonging and ecology
Esoteric for whose taste
Bring them on, play and convey
Outside the cube:
Tell esoteric tales, tell wisdom, tell free associations
To friends, to strangers, to the air
Inside the cube:
Plastics knows no human words
Only actions, forms and shapes
Seeks human translators
and essence of care, belonging and ecology
Installation; speculative device; un-readymades.
Made with various reclaimed wood collected over half a year or so, clamps and 1 new sheet of ply. Glue free, screw free, and no prior carpentry skills.
Healing from trauma (2023)
Sculpture; un-readymades.
A reclaimed piece of oak that were found with damage inflicted by metal at some point, as evident from the blue stains - a reaction the oak creates.
Installation; un-readymades.
Consist of natural pigment, cotton fabric, washing line.
Sculpture
Materials: Reclaimed plastic packaging, reclaimed scaffolding boards, fallen twigs.
Exhibition view at Bargehouse, London, UK.
Collograph on magnani 300 archival paper,
framed in found plastic bag.
Exhibition view at De Bowuput, Amsterdam, NL.
A series of collographs,
framed in found plastic bag.
Materials: Reclaimed plastic packaging, acid-free paper, store-bought printmaking ink.