SACRED / CAPTURED
2023–2025
Mixed media
Cardboard, plush, silk, foil, magazines, vintage ornaments
16 × 16 × 4 cm
2023–2025
Mixed media
Cardboard, plush, silk, foil, magazines, vintage ornaments
16 × 16 × 4 cm
Something divine lives in small reliquaries made of useless shiny objects. Surrounded by fake luxury made of fragile paper, thin foil, and broken jewelry, pinned down with pins, it seems at times omnipotent, at times trapped.
The project explores forms of the sacred and the corporeal through the structure of the reliquary—as a way to hold onto the elusive, to fix presence. Drawing on religious reliquaries and everyday display cases, I consider the very act of preservation as a manifestation of obsession—romantic, ritualistic, or collector's.
Objects made of fragile materials—cardboard, plush, glass beads, foil—create an illusion of luxury that conceals fragility and violence. Fragments of female bodies cut out of glossy magazines acquire the status of «sacred remains» where adoration and dismemberment turn out to be two sides of the same action.
The title of the project sets a dual perspective: the divine, locked in the material, and captured—in the act of looking, in the gesture of preservation. In this world, holiness and fetishism, love and control, memory and trophy form a single, disturbing system.
The series Gifts reveals the theme literally: fragments of bodies become metaphorical gifts, locks of hair, and relics at the same time—symbols of desire, retention, and loss.
Objects made of fragile materials—cardboard, plush, glass beads, foil—create an illusion of luxury that conceals fragility and violence. Fragments of female bodies cut out of glossy magazines acquire the status of «sacred remains» where adoration and dismemberment turn out to be two sides of the same action.
The title of the project sets a dual perspective: the divine, locked in the material, and captured—in the act of looking, in the gesture of preservation. In this world, holiness and fetishism, love and control, memory and trophy form a single, disturbing system.
The series Gifts reveals the theme literally: fragments of bodies become metaphorical gifts, locks of hair, and relics at the same time—symbols of desire, retention, and loss.
