2025
body bags, plastic
340 x 300 cm
changeable height
Transcription from the audio guide written by Alina Kleytman:
Last Warning
(fan, palm, sentence)
created by the personal decree of the Diva.
One sweep—and the room becomes too quiet.
The second—and someone remembers where they went wrong.
The third… no one has ever described the third.
After the third, people usually quit or disappear.
“Last Warning”—
And everyone understood everything….
Especially you!
Description/commentary
LAST WARNING stands like a spectral sentinel—looming, skeletal, and unnervingly silent. Made from body bags and plastic, this towering sculpture by Alina Kleytman evokes an imperial gesture transformed into threat. Inspired by the ceremonial opakhala—an ornamental fan traditionally used to cool and honor royalty—the palm fronds mutate into sharp, ghostlike extensions. Their presence conjures both the shadow of paradise and the machinery of punishment.
Commissioned, in the artist’s words, by “personal decree of the Diva,” the sculpture operates as a warning delivered in silence. One sweep of its fronds stills the air. A second stir invites guilt. The third—never described—is understood to mark a point of no return. Positioned between performance and judgment, LAST WARNING weaponizes beauty, playing with hierarchies of power and femininity. Kleytman transforms the decorative into the disciplinary, and the sublime into a sentence.
And everyone understands—
especially you.