Museum Gunzenhauser
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz

The inspiration comes from those locker rooms found in workplaces, gyms, saunas, or fetish clubs—interstitial spaces where bodies briefly step out of their roles. Places where strangers undress side by side without truly encountering one another. Temporary zones of intimacy that belong to no one and yet bear the traces of many.

Used drywall panels are transformed into a fragment of space whose makeshift construction speaks of labor, wear and tear, and transition. A wall of lockers that offers both protection and concealment—a slender form poised between exposure and retreat, upon which closeness, shame, and fantasy take hold. Amid fabric, skin imprints, and discarded work clothes, an oversized ceramic piece appears, its form reminiscent of parasites. It inhabits the space like an intimate, almost physical remnant: a being that exists only where clothing touches the body, where warmth, sweat, fear, and desire linger.