ONLY REAL ARTISTS BLEED FOR ART
Sculpture, installation
CRUZ&VIRG show, 2017
Can the misfortune facilitate an artistic narrative? A piece composed of a waterproof winter jacket that Cruz wore while suffering a bicycle accident in February of 2016 in Copenhagen. Next to the jacket there are four fragmented wisdom teeth removed in by a maxillofacial surgeon in December of 2016 in Costa Rica.
LEVITATION
Video installation, animation
CRUZ&VIRG show, 2017
Slideshow of screenshots collected on a year using Tinder, a sequence of people simulating levitation. This theme was inspired by "Participant Observation", a method involved in Cultural Anthropology. The pictures were collected in different places such as Denmark, Germany, Canada and Costa Rica. In the Soundtrack a BBC journalist from the 1950s is narrating a tribal levitation ceremony.
WHERE THE UNCERTAINTY, SCARCITY AND VULNERABILITY ARE MINIMIZED
Installation, performative writing
(Pictures by David Stjernholm) Show at Kunsthal Ulys, 2017
Three short stories part of a series of “one-shot” performative writing attempts, based on personal anecdotes to examine the ambiguity and subjectivity of memories. Issues explored are related to libertarianism, xenophobia, violence and the exploration of gender diversity.