"Modern Anxieties and Ancient Fears" brings together stone-carved tools and weapons placed across found locker pieces, from a demolished refugee camp in Düsseldorf, each marked with Asian stickers that evoke themes of migration and identity. These artifacts, resembling ancient relics yet set in contemporary contexts, symbolize protection, survival, and adaptation—the instincts that drive us, reinterpreted here through modern anxieties like social struggles, displacement, and the feeling of not belonging. Rusty metal disks reinterpret the ancient symbol of the sun, split and fragmented, embodying the continuity and clash of old meanings in a contemporary world. The exhibition explores the tensions between ancient and modern, blending myth and reality, where present fears meet the mysteries of the unknown. "Modern Anxieties and Ancient Fears" invites viewers to confront lingering, universal fears, connecting with a larger human history and challenging our understanding of identity and belonging.

Found metal locker pieces, soap stone sculptures, cutting metal disk;

In the frames of Weltkunstzimmer x Borderland Residency;

Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, DE;

2024