Statues of Emergency, 2025-Present

This body of work emerges from breaking apart and reassembling European porcelain figurines once associated with refinement, domesticity, and bourgeois taste. By fragmenting and recomposing these objects into surreal hybrid forms, the sculptures reveal the tensions beneath Europe’s appearance of unity, stability, and tradition. Positioned between ruin and possibility, they reflect on what survives the collapse of political systems, identities, and cultural symbols while engaging with ideas of historical rupture and transformation.

Drawing on thinkers such as Walter Benjamin, the work frames destruction not as an end but as a condition for rethinking history and crisis. The sculptures embody fragility and contradiction, shaped by contemporary conditions including migration, austerity, and resurgent nationalisms. Their fractured yet unified surfaces, sometimes bound by a monochrome blue glaze, highlight the coexistence of coherence and rupture, echoing hauntology and provisional synthesis. Rather than offering resolution, the works invite the viewer to confront instability and interpret fragmented histories and uncertain futures.