CHURCH
CHURCH treats faith as infrastructure — cherished, automated, outsourced, and slowly hollowed out. The series gathers gestures, symbols, and rituals into a space where belief becomes an experiment.
It addresses a culture that claims disbelief while obediently kneeling before its own ideologies. Between devotion and doubt, the works ask how the meaning of community survives its own erosion. Visitors are pushed to decide whether to give in or resist; each piece tests obedience and the capacity to act.
The series operates across kinetic sculpture, sound, light, and 3D-printed bodies, drawing on Catholic ritual, classical sculpture, and gamer aesthetics in equal measure.
Works in this series
The Catholic confessional reconfigured as technological interface; intimacy processed through automated response.
The church window as display surface; illumination engineered after belief.
Digitally fused male bodies collapse domination into desire; religious authority exposed through its own repressed eroticism.
A field of rotating crucifixes searches endlessly for orientation; salvation collapses into signal noise.
Superstition embedded as bodily infrastructure; secular subjects still governed through ritual obedience.
A devil’s head invites symbolic severing yet resists every attempt; liberation staged as a performative fantasy of control.
AI-generated arms beat against the wall without end; penance survives as automated political choreography.
An automated scourge performs suffering without consequence; absolvement recoded as spectacle, discipline, and erotic repetition.
A cross holds a single burning incense stick; devotion reduced to operational procedure.
Faith plugged directly into the wall socket; salvation rewritten as lethal convenience.
Grace recoded as reward mechanics; the sacred survives as transactional feedback.
The sacred posture reconfigured for the attention economy.
Sunlight reconstructed as devotional object; the artificial eclipse stages a theology of controlled darkness.
Exhibition history
- 2026Markus Klammer Preis (solo) — Städtische Galerie Speyer
- 2026CHURCH (solo) — Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin
- 2025Georg Meistermann Stipendium Auswahlausstellung — Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig
- 2025In Good Company — Galerie Russi Klenner, Berlin