pop x, installation, mixed media, 2026
pop x is a process-based spatial installation created by Ernstina Eitner and myself in the project space Dose in Hamburg. It is based on the idea that humans have left their living spaces, while new or different life forms have taken them over. Two distinct populations—Ernstina Eitner’s wool objects and my stone sculptures—expand throughout the space, using materials that evoke traces of former domesticity and transforming them into new habitats. At the beginning of the exhibition, both populations existed separately from one another. Over time, they grew together, approached each other, and eventually met. Instead of displacing one another, they merge and form something new. In doing so, the installation questions our perception of so-called pests and raises questions about space, coexistence, and attribution. Who decides who is allowed to stay and who must leave?