WHAT HOLDS US
2025
What Holds Us explores the tension between what sustains us and what holds us back. These works —11 small pieces and 4 large-scale silhouettes of rocking chairs— reveal moments where fragility becomes strength, and vulnerability becomes resistance.
I am drawn to that in-between space where something contains us, yet also limits us. I work with chairs as extensions of the human body. They are silent presences, witnesses of the everyday, of time, and of absence.
By wrapping them in gauze, or silk, I subject them to a transformation. Some protect themselves, others allow themselves to be covered, and others attempt to break free from their own wrapping.
White is my point of departure and my place of silence. In its purity I find the possibility to begin again, to repair.
What Holds Us speaks of the bonds that sustain us, the invisible structures that contain us, and the human paradox of wanting to belong and to be free at the same time.
