Exhibition images

Other people’s stories

Sculptural works for Casa Lü Parque residency

For this show at Casa Lü Parque residency, i made a series of works about the nature of social media and why it has made me so confused and unable to think. The stories that we share in our culture and those that we tell ourselves are getting shorter and shorter, mashed together, devoid of context, taking our attention in the present, rewriting histories and shaping the potential of our soft brains.

Casa Lü Parque
Mexico City, Mexico
1.1.2025-19.2.2025

Carynx performance. August 16 2024

CARYNX 

Exhibition/residency

The carynx was a psychological weapon developed by Celts in response Roman colonisation. Outmatched by the advanced military and resources of the empire the indigenous people used devices like the carynx to intimidate and scare the romans as they invaded their home . At @countdowngrabowsee this year I made this sculptural instrument and developed a musical work for 4 horn players with the super talented @aka.ggg @john.piss @liinanyx @mariongo_tres_hongos @cagdas.sari Lukas . Involving costumes with the expertise of @discretesystems . 

audio here 

Installation views

Costumes made with the expertise of hillary

poster and exhibition images

Recognising our incomprehensible acts of savage normality

Sculptural works for ARE Holland residency

The works in this show examine and untangle ordinary objects laden with nuanced meanings and untidy histories. Their supply chains and extensive development backgrounds often ignored or unquestioned. These products or materials are so mundane and neutral that it seems as if they don’t exist. Yet, they didn’t simply appear out of nowhere…

Online and offline, we all participate in trying to summarise the intangible experience of self-aware existence using limited character allowances in non-contextualized spaces. I dream of simple axioms that allow us to find peace and justification for our lives. However, the more I consume, the less it seems that any existence can be pure. Despite this longing for simplicity, it is the complexity of our modern world that makes it so culturally rich. Perhaps it’s time to embrace the confusion and stop searching for definitive answers and purity. Maybe there can be no more axioms, and perhaps that, in itself, is liberating.

ARE Holland
Enschede, Holland
1.5.2023-1.8.2023

Extra Boza exhibition images

EXTRA BOZA

Typographic survey of Tetovo, North Macedonia

I was invited as artist in residence to the diverse and friendly city of Tetovo. While my hosts at LOJA showed me around and we dodged traffic and ate too much baklava, I was soon struck by the colourful typography, competing for attention on the busy streets.

Signs and typography in Tetovo seek to advertise or explain simple ideas; a burek shop, TV repair service, a casino. But the choices implicit in these colourful and diverse styles reflect a complex and multi-layered community. The elegant cursive typefaces of Boutique Street for instance, with its many wedding dress shops, advertising the various matrimonial traditions that are still strong. Or the bold san serif fonts of the travel agents, with their heavy and bright uses of outlined Helvetica, showing the importance of itinerant work. I particularly enjoyed the touches of the middle east in the Qebabtores and Gold shops, I loved the DIY stores with their use of every font on the computer, and the electronics service shops with their ageing signs, still in business despite the rise of disposable electronics.

Through typography we can see the complex relationships and exchanges of the present and their connection to the intricate and tangled history of the Balkans. As a complete outsider with a tourists eye, I saw a wonderfully busy tapestry of cultures, languages, tastes and lifestyles, interconnected, layered and evolving in this unique and cinematic city.

LOJA ( temporary gallery space )
Tetovo, North Macedonia
26.11.2022-27.11.2022

Extra Boza opening night.
Featuring DJ Javed and refreshments by Shazaib and Layla.

Extra project ....

During this time in North Macedonia I was inspired by the local Balkan styles so I bought a fake Nike tracksuit from the Tetovo market. I’m interested in the globalism and the blurry layers of authenticity and meaning that people apply to brands. While having dinner with some friends from Pakistan, I was sewing over the Nike logo and Shazaib wanted to add something. From there I started to ask many people to add a few stitches and soon it became an odd tapestry from people from all over the world.

Thanks to everyone that has added something - if I missed you let me know!

Ajhan idrizi
@javedalam03
@shahzaib_haider97
@la.i.la_k
@shahnoz_ash
@monkeyonaturtle
Mehmet Memo
Maria Chortseva
Antonja Tina
@marinaterpo
Egzona Musliu
Aleksandra Sargjoska
@blerimjasharii
Bujar Luma
Dimce Josifovski
@itoitoitoitoito_
@becky.bbeast
Silas Parry
Erik Putz
Lucia Lavezzari
@maitanemidby
@jainsen_oficial
Esther
Juan Mena @stf.stf.stf
Wayso
Emma
barbie williams Carmen Santesmases Anisia Affek

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Exhibition Poster
July 3 – July 18, 2020

Terroir -
new and unreal influences

Exhibition


We may all be products of our environment, but what even is that right now? What is this new world we are living in? What unseen and complex motives are flavouring, corrupting or redeeming us?

This series of works imagines unreal and confusing futures through works in states of transition, evolution and decay. Implied by familiar but weaponised objects, hastily repurposed appliances, languages that have lost their meaning, bacteria and banal white masculinity. What has led to the manufacture of these artefacts, and what roles will they play as our taste changes, determined by a shifting terroir.