Etnia House of Arts, Venice

The work "It's Getting Hot in Here" is on display at the Etnia House of Arts exhibition in Venice in May 2026.

The glass- and gold-based artwork explores how glass has functioned as a technology of vision. It is linked to the idea that seeing is equivalent to understanding. However, glass also has the power to distort. It serves both as a medium of knowledge and illusion.

Eyeglasses begin to melt. The tool that is meant to clarify vision loses its form, as if it can no longer withstand the reality it is meant to mediate. Screens, lenses, and cameras do not bring us closer to truth, but instead keep us at just the right distance. The very air feels filled with propaganda. Reality splits: us and them, true and false, fact and narrative.

I am interested in how glass and gold have historically carried promises of transparency and permanence, the idea that truth could be anchored in material form. When these "materials of truth" begin to melt, it becomes clear that truth has never existed in a fixed form. The world is heating up, but the heat is not physical. It is cognitive overload. Yet we cannot stop looking.