Material: handmade iron nails, wax and pigment on floor boards
Exhibited:
Anatomical Museum of the University Erlangen, Germany
Kunstraum Weissenhohe, Nürnberg, , Germany
Embassy Rhineland-Palatinate Bruxelles, Belgium
Haus am Dom Frankfurt, Germany
Exhibited:
Anatomical Museum of the University Erlangen, Germany
Kunstraum Weissenhohe, Nürnberg, , Germany
Embassy Rhineland-Palatinate Bruxelles, Belgium
Haus am Dom Frankfurt, Germany
These works draw on ideas from genetics and epigenetics to consider how experiences are carried, transmitted, and inscribed across time. Genetics provides the biological framework of inheritance, while epigenetics reveals that environmental conditions and lived experiences can influence the expression of genes, leaving traces that may extend beyond an individual lifespan. Together, they offer a powerful model for thinking about memory, adaptation, and continuity between generations.
In this series, chromosomes are visualised as analogies for the moving body itself. Their forms suggest both microscopic structures and corporeal gestures, transforming scientific imagery into sculptural and spatial language. Arranged as friezes, the works unfold as generational pathways in which biological inheritance becomes intertwined with personal and collective histories.
The frieze format evokes a processional movement through time, connecting an archaeological past, an Anthropocene present, and an as-yet-unknown human future. The works propose the body not as a fixed entity but as an evolving archive—one that bears the inscriptions of memory, environment, and experience. By bringing together scientific concepts and artistic form, the project reflects on human existence as a continuous process of becoming, in which the intimate scale of the chromosome mirrors larger histories of migration, transformation, and cultural inheritance.