W O R K L I F E B A L A N C E

Berlin, 2024

“Anxious-avoidant”, 2024
steel and rhinestone chains

As part of WORK LIFE BALANCE exhibition curated by @billy____jacob
Work represents a malfunctioning mode of attachment called the anxious-avoidant style in modern psychology. Red and white steel chains are usually used as a barrier, a protection, an element of defence. The rhinestones are meant to attract, to sparkle, to flutter in the light. What do these chains protect and whose attention do they attract? There is no criticism here of the way we relate to others, but an intention to express a personal conflict, to translate a mental construct into physical expression.
The presence of the work in the exhibition space was perforative in its own way. The weight of the steel chains pulled the connecting elements from the floor with such force that they snapped off several times. The rhinestone chains were so fragile that visitors didn't notice them lying on the ground, walked over and broke them unknowingly. It was a physical and at the same time metaphorical self-destruction of the construction.