The Ocean Is Not Big Enough, 2024, Installation
Solo Exhibition at Vonk Veldeman, Hasselt, Belgium
The Ocean Is Not Big Enough, an installation merging video, drawing, and sculpture, explores the boundaries between external and internal realities, collective and personal fantasies of power, through expressions of violence and sexuality. At the heart of this project lies an examination of the human body's capacity to transform from a vessel of intimacy into an instrument of destruction.
The assembled pieces include drawings in ink and markers on paper inspired by Isra Hell (stage name), a porn star, uncovering masculine vulnerability through an ironic lens, while a kinetic sculpture of mechanical male toys trapped in water, fighting an endless battle for escape. A haunting red hand appears in a video work, wielding a devastating force—everything it acknowledges and touches crumbles to ash. Composed of fragmented organs and dismembered forms, these works hold a sense of confinement, where desire and annihilation converge.
The project was produced as part of a one-month experimental residency at Kunstplaats Vonk in Belgium.
The Ocean Is Not Big Enough, Installation views (Photos: Ilse Jooken)
