LASS (ES) LOS
Debütant*innen Austellung, Kunstverein München 2025
Erde aus Spanien, Haribo-Kirschen, Notizen auf Papier, menschliche Zähne, Insekten
28 Keramikkapseln, Maße variabel
LASS (ES) LOS is an installation structured around adobe sculptures inspired by Afghan kanginas (clay capsules traditionally used to preserve seasonal grapes during the winter months). The work appropriates this traditional preservation technique and reorients it towards the protection of fragile and intimate contents.
Inside the raw clay forms, I stored materials related to my family (funeral ashes, human teeth, handwritten notes and personal objects, and sometimes nothing), transforming the capsules into speculative memory containers.
Suspended above the installation, a floating cluster of Haribo cherries introduces the idea of childhood and the impossibility of preserving and stopping the passage of time.
The installation is accompanied by a short fictional text written in the tone of traditional oral folk tales aimed at children.
"Once upon a time, in the last fields my family ever owned, spiked clay spheres lay scattered across the earth. They were no ordinary spheres, but time capsules, known as little guardians of memory. Ancient legends say they were once used to preserve secrets that, dried under the sun, could become eternal. Inside them, stories waited patiently for someone to discover and remember.
Above these silent guardians, in the fields that once belonged to Juanito, my grandfather, floated an impossible harvest of Haribo cherries—sweet and bright, as if childhood itself had taken flight, flaunting its own immortality. One day, in that strange landscape, the cherries began to get agitated … and their secrets eager to be remembered.
This caught the attention of Death, who did not welcome such a challenge. It slid among them, brushing the edges of the ground, observing the clay spheres and the cherries it encountered along the way.
The precious Haribo cherries, with their irresistible sweetness and beauty, tempted Death until it could no longer resist. It devoured every single one of them, and the excess gave it such a terrible stomachache that it had to retreat. Meanwhile, the silent clay guardians remained in their place, patiently waiting to be seen."
