Freezer as exhibition space (2025)

Installation / Refrigerator, ice, raw clay, sculptural infrastructure, found objects, styrofoam / 180 x 120 x 120 cm

Project is based on a research of survival and its relation to art. It emerged in response to perspectives that consider art non-functional because it does not directly contribute to human biological or material survival. Through this project I researched ways of connecting art to survival, the potential uses and functions of artworks, as well as the relationships between their conceptual and material dimensions.

I researched patterns of organism preservation, focusing primarily on how they survive and sustain their existence, both directly and indirectly. I then translated these patterns into artistic practice, approaching artwork production by analogy with evolutionary processes and organism's life cycle. Comparing various phases, such as the production and storage of an artwork, installation, dismantling, and the duration of an exhibition to the life cycles of organisms, I framed the exhibition as the central goal of creating a contemporary art project, or the crucial phase of its life cycle and the essence of its existence. I therefore asked myself: How can the exhibition of an artwork be approached through the lens of preserving existence?

Following the direct, biological modes of preserving existence, I reproduced my past projects by treating their concepts as genetic codes and engaging in a form of genetic engineering - combining these codes or concepts to generate new hybrid projects. This process made it possible to re-exhibit my past projects and formally reflect them in the new hybrid works.

When positioning the artworks within the exhibition framework I focused on indirect ways of sustaining existence and the often ignored significance of collaboration and mutual support between individuals and species. I curated a pair of hybrid projects and integrated them into the exhibition in a way that allowed them to mutually reinforce each other’s exhibition potential. Through this composition, the artworks became interdependent, each serving a direct function in sustaining the other.