Gesellschaft / Society
2026
Soft, wet, ever becoming.
Drying, hardening, suddenly still.
A trace of movement, turned into form.
Society.
Vanished in silence?
Drying, hardening, suddenly still.
A trace of movement, turned into form.
Society.
Vanished in silence?
These works emerge from an inquiry into how structures come into being. At first, they are soft, responsive, almost indistinguishable from the surfaces they rest upon, like a wet cloth absorbing the contours of a living society. Over time, they dry, harden, and retain form, yet (and this is the point that interests me:) lose their capacity to adapt. What remains is a shell: a structure that no longer reflects movement, but resists it.
In this moment, the legal system risks losing its potential as a living expression of society, becoming instead a rigid framework that fixes, separates, and inhibits transformation. These reflections echo my earlier theoretical work in state philosophy, a PhD thesis later abandoned, and are here translated into a minimal sculptural language.
We must keep (legal) structures open and flexible, allowing them to function as a kind of skeleton that gives support without determining form, a continuous dialogue, a mutually shaping process between system and society.
Form follows culture. And culture is the interplay between structure and questioning structure.
