Notes on the works presented during Grand Tour:

Essential breathing
The humidifiers made from plastic bottles are set up to distribute words. The inkjet printed, soaking wet paper passes it's information on to the water, which is then vaporized and distributed in the room. The texts selected for the bottles describe themselves a flow or forcefield or possession: that of subjectivation through the dominant flow of information, but also a potential to escape it.

XBR-75X900F (-1,-2), PM55H (-1,-2)
The black "screens" on the wall seem to mime actual TV-screens, whose flows of information are interrupted. They throw the viewers gaze back onto the viewer, distorted. They are made from recycled cardboard, the leftover carriers of our desired goods.

languish, languish.
The engraved cardboard work talks as the title suggests about languishing, a mental state of not being the best possible self but also not depressed, a sort of fatigue from being exposed to constant overstimulation. The word languish itself reminds of language, and its normative potential which is underlined by the choice of the Helvetica font that gives it a corporate feeling.

Model (1:100)
The google home device represents the complete abstraction of human language and its integration into the flow of abstracted labor, the algorithm. A perverted feedback loop that slowly mutates from the primitive accumulation of user data to the modification of human behavior. The stone like, muting effect that the casting of the device into concrete has, mirrors the isolation and division that comes along with with the cult of the individual.

In suspension
The lamp is part of the logistical universe, controlled by the algorithm. The discarded object, found in the street, is held (conserved) in its precarious state with nylon strings and epoxy resin, frozen into a state that is almost the end but kept precariously alive by a full spectrum lamp that promises to counter seasonal depression.