Human Deserts, Cold Lands

The sculptures (2024–) emerge from casts of previously formed female figures, shaped through play and free movement. Through the application of large quantities of cacao, coffee and indigo, the bodies deform, collapse and fracture.

The materials are directly connected to the first large-scale plantation economies and to histories of slavery and monoculture. Within these systems, land was exhausted, communities were displaced and cultural and ecological knowledge was interrupted.

The fractured bodies remain marked by these histories. They hold the material consequences of plantation economies, where the exploitation of land and bodies became inseparable. The sculptures speak in particular to the experiences of women, whose lives were shaped by overlapping forms of colonial and patriarchal violence.