How To Get Good At Dying
Vorfluter Gallery, Berlin 2023

The body of work featured in this exhibition contemplates the spiritual dimensions of loss. 

How To Get Good At Dying examined in particular the notion of letting go of parts of the self which were shaped by, and are attached to systems of oppression - the same systems we wish to give up on. 
In the context of fast, consumerist culture, mourning is a rare pause, and therefore subversive: a site of meaningful “dysfunction.” 
In this show’s proposition, we are both the dead and the grievers.
Painting assemblages made with traditional plant dyes create an abstract, poetic landscape of departure, transformation, and reorientation; maintaining a delicate tension between control and lack thereof, transience and otherworldly time frames. The pieces draw on ancient visual traditions of grief, care-giving and sense-making, such as death scrolls, tomb hieroglyphs, and guidance books for the dead. 
Bio-plastic sculptures draw on emblems of contemporary culture, and play with notions of embodiment, artificiality, sublime and abject; they are familiar, but dissolving, morphing, transforming.
The materials used both in painting and sculpture are inherently fleeting materials, occupied with temporality, on the edge between living and dead. 

The installations arrange emotionally charged, meditative environments to linger in the space of being lost; and perhaps, feel held through it.