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Balneum Mariae

The word Balneum Mariae (Marie’s bath or Bain-marie) refers to an alchemy tool and the word bath, is a reminder of a Hammam, a bath in which things might work in a different order compared to the real world. A heterotopia. In this imaginary hammam, a diversion of spirits is happening. Plants and humans are mutating. Flowers are getting aggressive and they seek dominance. After this alchemical incident, plants have the urge to become the dominant species. They kill, eat, or beat humans and what is made by man over the long period of our civilized history.

Installation view

Installation view

The third day of genesis when we mutated with plants, Ceramic, 35.30 cm, 2021
Hammurabi and Shamash, Ceramic, 130.30.30 cm, 2021
Sinner man where you gonna run to? (Based on a song by Nina Simone), Ceramic, 50.50.110, 2021
Killing the sinner man, Ceramic, 130. 40.40 cm, 2021
The queen with closed eyes, Ceramic, 110.35.35 cm 2020-2022
The vomiting lady,Ceramic, 65.40.40, 2021
The reverse fire, Ceramic, 35.25.25 cm, 2021
The red rose searching for its last victim, Ceramic, 60.40.40 cm, 2021
The neutral witnesses getting baked over the steam, Ceramic, 170.70.70 cm, 2022
The day that we grew at the end of the time, Ceramic, 70.30.35 cm, 2021
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