schlafende Zweifel, bronze, various sizes (around 32x5x5 cm)
schlafende Zweifel (2025)
(sleeping doubts)
In schlafende Zweifel, delicate forms made from sewing thread, tissue paper, and wax are cast into small bronze sculptures. These subtle objects recall root systems, algae, subterranean rhizomes, or marine organisms – organic networks that appear to be in the midst of separating, emerging, evolving.
From these intricate and partially ruptured structures, small, rounded forms begin to appear – sometimes nestled within, sometimes barely visible, sometimes on the verge of detachment. These are the “doubts” of the title: not monumental or overwhelming, but strangely tender miniatures of uncertainty. Still dormant, hidden within the mesh, they are gently cradled, yet their destabilizing potential is already palpable.
Through bronze casting, the ephemeral is preserved without being stripped of its fragility. The material lends these inner states a paradoxical weight: the light becomes heavy, the soft turns solid, the invisible takes form.
This work explores the quiet intensity of latent states – reflecting on what stirs within us before it finds expression. Here, doubt is not portrayed as deficiency, but as part of a transformative process: a fragile, almost beautiful disruption that questions balance without destroying it.