[2026 – ongoing] The Ruined Grid

Series of 3D-renderings (archival inkjet-prints), narrative script for performative reading
40 x 50 cm each

Drawing on the notion of the grid as an inward-turning device for abstracting the world, the project stages 3D-modelled contemporary still lives within a fictional artist studio. By deploying 3D objects that exist only as digital constructions, the arrangements explore the status of representation under conditions in which images no longer maintain a direct relationship to a physical referent or reality.

"It’s February 2026. Daylight enters the window and unfurls across spare furnishings and artworks in a way some might call transparent. For many years, she couldn’t afford a studio. Not that it mattered. She has more in common with conceptual and postconceptual practices that employ preexisting images and text to materialize ideas. Don’t most people think of the “artist’s studio” as a physical space? Yet isn’t it also a question of a space of thought—the skeleton you hang stuff on? Didn’t someone once say that the only useful thing about a studio is that, after some time spent there, one might actually begin to imagine something? An image, for example. To walk around in.* […]" – Excerpt from script Prologue