HIGH WITHOUT U
Install shots from exhibition
BAS CS Gallery, Berlin, 07.11-11.11.2024
In HIGH WITHOUT U, love, longing and desire collide, inviting viewers to confront the dualities of love — its warmth and its distance, the closeness it promises and the yearning it leaves behind in its wake.
A love manifesto of sorts, KISS ME charts the initial spark of a connection; the butterflies, the lust, the push and pull. WITHOUT U is the epilogue; the I-miss-you, the fuck-you, the final severing. Desire is ventriloquised through found-text images, anonymous voices become a vehicle for the artist to share their deepest wants.
Imagery from memes, iMessage conversations and a NOKIA startup screen depict love and loss in the digital age, where screens become vessels for our most vulnerable desires, and our darkest heartbreaks. These digital artefacts of connection — a hand reaching, a read receipt — become symbols of intimacy that is found and lost.
Raw desires surface, woven with lyrics from Lana del Rey, contemplating how love and intimacy intersect with power and submission.
Found objects are personified and romanticised, evoking an abstracted intimacy where human presence is implied, but not seen. In EL BESO, two hoodies are sewn together at the mouth. The bodies once filling these hoodies are absent, leaving only the memory of their embrace — a ghostly, eternal kiss. A confrontation with absence, yet a kind of fleeting reunion.
HIGH WITHOUT U offers a perspective on love tinged with longing, imagination and a desire for connection that goes beyond the limitations of human relationships. It is a lens through which even the quietest, most overlooked objects carry meaning, showing us the infinite ways that love can manifest, even in the absence of the lover.
Works:
EL BESO, 2024 Photograph, 100 x 100
BESITO, 2024 Sculpture, found artificial flowers, vase
OPEN ME UP, TELL ME YOU LIKE ME, 2024 Foil decal on mirror, 30 x 30
UNTITLED (AMOR ROMÁNTICO), 2024 Sculpture, plastic chairs
KISS ME, 2024 Zine, edition of 50, 14.8 x 14.8
(HIGH) WITHOUT U, 2024 Zine, edition of 50, 14.8 x 14.8
U & ME, 2024 Acrylic on found road sign
ÁTAME, 2024 Sculpture, found curtains
UNTITLED (NOKIA), 2024 Acrylic on wood, 34.5 x 34.5
SPIT ON ME, 2023 Sculpture, sterling silver earrings