Oh No That's 7 Years Bad Luck!

A ladder is mounted flat against the wall, extending diagonally into the gallery space above a lowered arched passageway. To proceed, visitors must bow their heads and pass beneath it, enacting a gesture historically associated with superstition, submission, and misfortune.

The work stages belief as bodily reflex rather than conscious conviction. Passing under the ladder becomes unavoidable, transforming a culturally inherited taboo into spatial choreography. Superstition emerges not as irrational exception, but as a behavioral structure embedded within movement, architecture, and habit.

Inscribed directly onto the ladder, the title unfolds across the object in fragmented intervals, interrupted by deliberate gaps and pauses. Language stretches across the structure like an interrupted warning, oscillating between irony, anxiety, and inevitability. Oh No That’s 7 Years Bad Luck! examines how systems of belief continue to organize behavior long after their original symbolic frameworks have eroded.