Habitat
2024
Ceramics, found objects, wallpaper, audio, electronics, sound insulation
Habitat explores the human impulse to control and construct the environment around us. While animals adapt or migrate in response to change, humans reshape their surroundings — building, redirecting, and enclosing space to create a sense of safety and order.
The installation unfolds in three parts. The first is a darkened “home” filled with forest sounds — birdsong, insects, rustling leaves — that do not match what the viewer sees. Familiar household objects emerge from the darkness, scattered chaotically, forming an uncomfortable, disorienting environment. The loss of visual reference heightens tactile and spatial perception, revealing the fragility of our sense of control.
The second part inverts the first: a brightly lit artificial forest made of ceramic “petrified” trees and faceless birds that speak not in birdsong but in fragmented human voices. They recite rules of behavior, attempting to impose order, yet their speech dissolves into incoherent chatter — a failed system of control.
The final part is a soundproof, unlit space. In complete darkness and silence, the viewer becomes aware of their own body, hearing through vibration and tension rather than ears. Deprived of sight and orientation, each person faces their own physical and mental state — between fear and calm, chaos and stillness.
Among the suspended images, as if caught in frozen wind, the viewer can observe an unclear, elusive narrative of disaster, in which the silhouettes are barely recognizable. Just as «shards of a moment» prevent the depicted situation from being seen as frozen, so time itself, no matter how it is experienced, cannot be stopped in one place.
The installation unfolds in three parts. The first is a darkened “home” filled with forest sounds — birdsong, insects, rustling leaves — that do not match what the viewer sees. Familiar household objects emerge from the darkness, scattered chaotically, forming an uncomfortable, disorienting environment. The loss of visual reference heightens tactile and spatial perception, revealing the fragility of our sense of control.
The second part inverts the first: a brightly lit artificial forest made of ceramic “petrified” trees and faceless birds that speak not in birdsong but in fragmented human voices. They recite rules of behavior, attempting to impose order, yet their speech dissolves into incoherent chatter — a failed system of control.
The final part is a soundproof, unlit space. In complete darkness and silence, the viewer becomes aware of their own body, hearing through vibration and tension rather than ears. Deprived of sight and orientation, each person faces their own physical and mental state — between fear and calm, chaos and stillness.
Among the suspended images, as if caught in frozen wind, the viewer can observe an unclear, elusive narrative of disaster, in which the silhouettes are barely recognizable. Just as «shards of a moment» prevent the depicted situation from being seen as frozen, so time itself, no matter how it is experienced, cannot be stopped in one place.