Shooting Star

This installation combined video work with a collection of exhibited objects.

The video project explored the architectures embedded within the olive groves of Jaén, Spain. It imagined how we inhabit places built on memory, where traces of the past linger and possible futures remain suspended. These landscapes seemed caught between a recent past and an imminent future, where little appeared to change. At its center was the gesture of covering abandoned workers' houses with white paper, transforming them into temporary gallery spaces in which the surrounding landscape became the only exhibited work. Rather than restoring or preserving, the intervention framed absence itself as something to be seen. Alongside the video, a handmade star-shaped table displayed a collection of found objects gathered from the surroundings. Like the scattered architectures that punctuate the endless fields, these fragments had lost their original function but acquired new meaning through being forgotten, found, and collected. Together, the works reflected on memory, value, and the quiet persistence of places that resist disappearance.

Mixed media installation: video, metal, side table, collection of objects. Amsterdam, January 2026.