IN MY GRIP, 2024
JENNIFER PLAYING WITH HER LAST KILL, 2024
SPIKE, 2024
Pulse, spray paint, 2023
MA GRADUATION PROJECT
As I forge the iron my heart beats to the same rhythm,
I merge with the metal
Pulse focuses on the outbreak of contained feelings like anger and stress, I used the beating of my heart and the forging of nails as a guide through my work.
I looked at what makes us human and what we share: our mortality / being alive at this moment
a beating heart and a body constructed of bones.
I started from two connecting components in the body: the bone, which functions as the foundation of our body, and our heart, which provides a constant pulse through blood vessels.
Bones casted in aluminium, 2023
I see our bones, not only as a literal connection in the body, but also as a figurative connection between people, because we all have a transient body from which eventually only our bones will be left.
A memento mori, despite its lurid connotation, is a reminder for me to live fully in the now, to feel and enjoy,
an ode to hedonism, and to being 'human'.
juste un clou en colère, copper bracelet, 2023
The copper bracelet (juste un clou en colère) acts as a remnant of the emotional eruption, and is at the same time a rebellious reference to the exclusive nail bracelets of Cartier (juste un clou).
It is also a reference to Punk culture and the need for rebellion and change