Synthetic Genesis
Aluminium, resin, chewing gum
2024
260x75x75 cm
Clay, glaze
various sizes - Mutated Strawberries
2025
Synthetic Genesis brings together bodily traces and industrial materials to imagine changing forms of life. Transparent resin modules contain pieces of chewing gum that I chewed and kept over several years. Each carries traces of my DNA and the imprint of a repeated habit shaped by stress. Joined together, the modules form a large DNA-like structure emerging from the soil, surrounded by ceramic wisdom teeth and mutated strawberries. The wisdom teeth evoke structures inherited from our ancestors that persist even as they lose their function. e distorted strawberries imagine another response to change: bodies taking on unfamiliar forms under increasing ecological pressure. One suggests gradual disappearance; the other speculates on transformation as a way of enduring. By embedding traces of my body within synthetic resin, the work places biological inheritance inside an artificial structure. Moving between preservation and mutation, Synthetic Genesis asks what bodies retain, what they relinquish and what new forms might emerge as habits, technologies and environments continue to shape life.