Human Deserts, Cold Lands

The sculptures (2025-) emerge from casts of previously formed female figures, shaped through play and free movement. Through the use of large quantities of cacao, coffee and indigo, these bodies deform and fracture.

The materials, directly connected to the first large-scale plantation economies, carry within them the histories of slavery and monoculture. Within these systems, both land and people were exhausted, communities were disrupted, and traditions were interrupted.

The fractures in the figures make visible how these processes did not only lead to ecological destruction, but also affected human existence. In particular, that of women, who were subjected to a double form of colonisation.