Moulds and casts, 2025
Installation, plaster, silicone, wood, and wax

The works explores the mould as a metaphor for the human body — not only as a physical form, but as a vessel for memory, transformation, and resistance. The mould is both imprint and absence, a record of how we are shaped by biology, history, culture, and lived experience.

Rather than depicting the body directly, the sculpture evokes its trace: hollow, layered forms that suggest past versions of the self — like a memory held in negative space. The use of corn, both as material and symbol, connects bodily processes (such as sugar regulation by the pancreas) with broader political and ancestral narratives.

Here, the mould becomes an incubator — a space of containment, warmth, and potential. The word evokes a machine for nurturing fragile life, but also a generative site for new ideas, forms, and identities. In this work, it marks the meeting point of internal and external forces, where identity is both held and reshaped. It is a space between nourishment and control, personal vulnerability and collective memory — a quiet engine of becoming.