taste sweet, taste bitter (2024)
large-scale concrete relief sculptures

These decorative facades question the allure of monumental beauty, prompting one to contemplate the aesthetic object more fully—one marked by the countless lives intertwined with it. In colonised Libya, ancient Roman ruins fuelled a restoration industry keen on protecting and connecting the present to a ‘golden’ European past.  Here, the slow, controlled, and strenuous act of piping concrete, akin to icing a cake, mimics and mocks the perceived sweetness of delicate forms, contemplating beauty as aggression.

Commissioned by 421 Arts Campus.