HANGING

Hanging focuses on a single motif — the pufferfish. Once a living creature of the sea, it now appears as a dried souvenir, emptied of life and sold as decoration. Suspended in mid-air, the fish becomes an object of fascination and discomfort at once: a fragment of nature transformed into commodity, beauty turned into display.

The work reflects on how living matter can be aestheticised, traded, and detached from its origin. The pufferfish, with its inflated body and defensive form, embodies both vulnerability and aggression — a natural mechanism reinterpreted as an ornament of desire. By isolating and presenting it as an object to be hung, Hanging exposes the moment when nature becomes surface, when survival becomes spectacle.

As in other works, the piece draws on the intersection between the personal and the societal: how everyday things — or in this case, natural beings — mirror collective values. The transformation of the fish recalls the broader mechanisms through which meaning is assigned, consumed, and repurposed.

It invites reflection on ownership, fascination, and loss — on the human need to preserve what has already been taken. Hanging is both still and unsettling: a quiet image of how easily life can be turned into ornament, and how beauty persists even as it becomes possession.