Do You Love Me Now
Berlin, 10.10.2025
Do You Love Me Now explores material and personal transformation, examining how value is perceived through change. From discarded amazon parcels, furniture packaging and moving boxes, found cardboard is recast into metal-like sculptures that bear little resemblance to their humble origins. As a material, cardboard is taken for granted due to its ubiquity–lining streets on collection day and recycled en masse after a single-use–but here, this periphery material that is durable yet pliant is made valuable. The guiding principles of form-through-tension are used to create 3D volumes from what were once 2D sheets. Cardboard is folded and compressed into five organic forms that ripple with color and metallic sheen. Flour, pigment, silica-rich earth and water water are mixed into a paste and then layered onto and subsequently sanded down from each surface, in a gesture that simultaneously conceals and reveals what lies beneath. By waxing the surface, the now visible corrugated interior is polished to highlight the composite structure that gives it strength. A transformation has occurred and the final forms we see oscillate between industrial shapes and organic matter. They appear like steel from afar, yet reveal themselves as cardboard upon closer inspection — a deception that questions how and to what we attribute value.
The artworks are named after diary entries spanning the months before the death of his mother and after his commitment to pursuing a career in the arts. Titles like On The One Hand, Great Day // I am Exhausted and Feel Yourself // You Need The Bad evoke the often fragmented ways in which we metabolize change. They connote the uncertainty, doubt, and instability experienced, but also the trust, compassion, and patience required, to overcome the messy middle. Every death is a transformation, and every transformation is a death.
Installation Photography
Do You Love Me NowAckerstr. 23, 10115 Berlin,
2025
Artworks Exhibited
On The One Hand, Great Day // I am Exhausted
Flour, water, diatomaceous earth on cardboard
120 x 100cm
2025
Looking For Shortcuts // These Are All Shortcuts
Flour, water, diatomaceous earth on cardboard
80x80cm
2025
Feel Yourself // You Need The BadFlour, water, diatomaceous earth on cardboard
80x80cm
2025
I Feel Lost // Something To ShowFlour, water, diatomaceous earth on cardboard
60x70cm
2025
Hugged Her//I Want MoreFlour, water, diatomaceous earth on cardboard
31 1/4 × 30 in | 79.4 × 76.2 cm
2025