‘‘object arrives like a bride’’ is an installation, a walk-in landscape where mass-produced, found, and handmade objects act as relics and collaborators.

it lures with bright, child-like aesthetics only to reveal dissonance. innocence meets spirituality, personal narratives meet broader themes of consumerism and oppression.

it interrogates the fictions and power dynamics we inherit, exploring how objects exert agency – as relics and collaborators – in rituals and collective mythologies. objects here act as markers of memory and connection, tying humans and non-human worlds.

the work draws from folk art, animist spirituality, televised spectacle, and materialist critique, reframing the ordinary and the overlooked as active participants. it is a silent protest, a manifesto against the destructive gaze that transforms others into objects of satisfaction.

Group exhibition "Unstable Grounds", 421, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2025.05

object arrives like a bride (2025)

"object arrives like a bride" is a stage, an altar, a museum.

it is about the rituals we invent to ground ourselves in a world that feeds on vulnerability and desire, where objects oscillate between mundane and sacred.

embedded in the installation there is a video (featuring the Foundress) expanding the world of the installation and talking about objects that participate in mythologies created to control. a handbook, that is also a master's thesis and manifesto, asks: how do we live with others - objects, places, animals, people - without consuming them or being consumed. a blue carpet, laid under your feet, is to be walked on barefoot.