‍Textile-based sculptural assemblage raw wool, reclaimed burlap, found objects, salvaged wood, steel rod, clamps 2024 (ongoing) Dimensions variable

Mirage of human nature

This project works with raw wool in its elemental state—unprocessed, irregular, still carrying traces of the animal. Its proximity to the living is central. Through water, pressure, and friction, fibers bind into dense, skin-like surfaces. Form is not imposed; it emerges from the negotiation between gesture and matter. Under compression, wool becomes ambivalent—protective yet fragile. In relation to burlap, reclaimed fabrics, and rigid structures, it is held, restrained, or suspended—generating tension between the soft and the structural, the living and the constructed. Wool appears here as exposed matter, subjected to weight, pressure, and gravity. A site where fragility and resistance coexist. These works often unfold in post-industrial spaces, where the environment is not a backdrop but a condition. Meaning does not reside in the object alone, but emerges through its encounter with place. This approach recalls a pre-modern condition of the image, when it was inseparable from its location. Like frescoes bound to architectural space, these works resist displacement. Their meaning is not fixed, but contingent—emerging through the encounter between material, place, and attention. Mirage of Human Nature examines the human as a structure—revealing it as a construct sustained by illusion. Catastrophe exposes its limits and makes its nature visible. What is intrinsic to human nature—beyond biology— is revealed precisely at the moment when we fail to be human: the awareness of our own possible deshumanization.

Photography by LelleFotografie