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Hooj 2026
Extends the latest exhibition Jooh by shifting from exposure to imposition.
If Jooh located the “inside” as something revealed by time—bones, stones, and traces uncovered in the desert—Hooj begins after that moment. It takes these elements and subjects them to alignment, restraint, and placement.
The works are constructed on steel plates that act as fields of pressure. Against them, fragments are fixed, bound, or suspended. The compositions do not follow the randomness of the desert; they interrupt it. Each element is held in a state that resists dispersal.
This marks a shift:
the interior is no longer discovered—it is reorganized.
Steel operates as a manufactured ground—cut, processed, and standardized—yet capable of holding and recontextualizing organic and geological remains. Its surface carries marks of intervention rather than erosion, introducing a different temporality into the work.
The tension in Hooj emerges between:
* organic irregularity and industrial flatness
* dispersed matter and controlled composition
* time as erosion and time as intervention
Bindings and clamps make this system explicit. They hold materials in place, preventing movement and collapse, imposing structure onto what was once subject to open environmental forces.
A large vertical steel panel functions as a central axis, shifting the scale of encounter. Here, the relationship between object and surface becomes more sparse, suggesting reduction rather than accumulation—a boundary where interior and exterior begin to collapse.
In Hooj, the “inside” is no longer hidden or found. It is constructed through acts of selection, positioning, and control.
If Jooh revealed what remains after time,
Hooj determines how those remains are held.
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