Won’t you collectivize, my love?
installation, leather, metal, foam. 2026. 

The work “Won’t you collectivize, my love?” deals with undercurrent power relations female read bodies are confronted with in day to day situations. The tension between power and control becomes obvious through the use of material that is reminsicent of BDSM culture and references the appropriation of sex based power play as a means to subvert hierachical dynamics of power.

In a broader context the work examines questions of visibility, access and vulnerabilty. Who is granted full access and autonomy over one’s own body? Who gets to propose action, who is merely in a position of reacting? In what ways does a critique of the most initmate of our everyday lives serve as a mean to question our society as a whole and what shapes our vision of bodies that subvert our understanding of normality and question the abject?

The shell object references a work by the renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli, that shows Venus as the godess of beauty being washed ashore at the coast of Pathos. One of the most known images of todays cultural memory it inherently carries moments of violence as Venus becomes a consumable object through the standards set by a male gaze. Although Venus is nude, her pose is modest—she covers herself. This poses the question of as to what extent a female body that is to be seen as desirable owns the agency over her own sexuality.

In the 1980 this question was thoroughly examined trough something that would later be referred to as “the feminist sex wars”. Rather than abiding to the logic of patriarchal power, it’s appropriation poses questions of accessbility and inclusion, leading the way to new possibilities of interconnecting. The title “Won’t you collectivize, my love?” is to be interpreted as a threat and an invitation at the same time.