»Charms«
Charms consists of a 30-minute single-channel video with two-channel sound, shown inside a custom-built projection structure made from old wall cabinets. Marquetry reliefs in the same material extend into the space. The video follows two characters through one-euro shops, theatre backstage areas, and scenes of tactile, therapeutic sand play. Informed by lived experience and personal relations, "Charms" reflects on class, taste, and value production in art, examining how these are bound to processes of distinction. Misunderstanding is treated not as failure but as a productive condition, drawing attention to how viewers position themselves, judge, and seek orientation within the work. In this sense, „Charms“ raises the question of whether form, labor, and lived experience might be encountered as a shared material field, channeling Lu Märten’s proposition that “there is a long history of form and a short history of art.”