2024
body bags, plastic
160x100x100 cm
NECESSARY LUXURY OR LUXURY NECESSITY? is a sculptural assemblage made from black
body bags and plastic, composed as a compact figurative structure. Short legs in small
decorative shoes support a pair of enlarged, skeletal-like hands that hold a circular mass at
the center of the work. The figure is upright, composed, and self-contained, its elements
arranged with the logic of display rather than collapse. Ornament and containment coexist,
producing a form that feels staged, preserved, and deliberately presented.
The sculpture evokes the hypothetical aftermath of a world government celebration
abruptly interrupted by a nuclear explosion—an artifact exhumed not from history, but
from a speculative future. What remains is not ruin, but residue refined into form:
catastrophe absorbed into ceremony, destruction stabilized as aesthetics. Luxury appears
here not as comfort, but as an attitude—one that survives disaster by applauding it,
transforming violence into decor and indifference into a lasting structure.
Welcome to a world where every gunshot is an applause for your cowardice, every bomb an ovation for your indifference,” says a neural network called Dirty White, designed by the artist. The installation presents the hypothetical aftermath of a world government party interrupted by the explosion of a nuclear bomb, with the artifacts exhumed from the future.