LAST BREATH
The table is a place of gathering—at birth, in life, in celebration, and even in death. Yet death, though inseparable from life, remains a subject that our society often avoids, treating it as something uncomfortable, even as a kind of failure within our system.
My practice approaches this silence through what sustains us most directly: food.
Working with glass, ceramics, and floral installations made from discarded flowers, I explore the beauty of transience. Fragility, ephemerality, and decay are not only revealed but also transformed into something vivid, tangible, and approachable.
The blown glass pieces, created through the traditional technique of shaping with breath, recall organic organisms — resembling human guts or inner bodily landscapes. Conceived as vessels, bottles, and drinking tools, these sculptures embody the act of giving form through air — a gesture intimately tied to life and its final exhalation.
Some of these glass vessels contain different liquid landscapes — some even edible — composed of fruits, plants, and flowers undergoing fermentation or preservation processes. Through this interplay, the installation connects sculptural practice with natural cycles of transformation, decay, and renewal.
With my diploma project at the Academy of Fine Arts Munich (2025), I investigated how this transience could be made visible, and even digestible. For Last Breath at SALON c/o, I return to this theme with two seasonal beverage creations—originally conceived as remedies for the heart, both medical and emotional—that invite reflection on loss, care, and healing.
The installation brings together fragments of my diploma work, new ceramic pieces created during my residency in Italy, and a carefully curated selection of table objects. In collaboration, we are also developing a beverage installation accompanied by a subtle food intervention, allowing visitors to experience transformation not only visually but also sensorially.
Last Breath unfolds as a symbiosis of art, design, and culinary practice—an offering to share the fleeting beauty of what nourishes us, and a meditation on the cycles of life and death.
