NEW BOOK!! 💙
A first limited-edition print run of 25 signed copies of Calidum Innatum is now available for purchase
Stories from the time when I was living in a coal mine, in search of life’s vital heat… including stills from a film that will never see the light of day, and primordial energies!
NOW AVAILABLE 55 CHF (excl. shipping) Contact [email protected] or via DM 🌟
Hardcover book with stitch binding 15.2 cm × 21.5 cm ISBN 978-3-033-11874-4
#caliduminnatum #newbook #coal
Paris was great 🌟 Thank you @ensaparisest and @sub_architects for the invite! Thanks to the 400 students who listened! The full lecture (1:10:46), speaking on Kazakhstan, Los Angeles as an initiation chamber, and the shadow, is now on the @ensaparisest youtube channel. Un grand merci @vanessa_pointet@thibaut_pierron
Three weeks of filming for my new film installation
Following the promise of the hills and the pull of staring into the sun for too long, we let palm fronds, gunpowder, and anamorphic distortions guide us through the shoot.
#arcadiachimera
@aargauerkunsthaus until 18.1.2026
Dead birds along the shore of Lake Boehmer are the only thing hinting at its toxicity. The oasis, flowing from an abandoned oil well, is now on view.
Curated by @juliandenzler
#lakeboehmer
Into three reclaimed bricks from the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, I had CO₂ lasers burn the impermanent into eternity.
Printed with these engraved bricks, The Dream of an Afterimage (2025) materialises the forthcoming three-scene film installation Arcadia Chimera (2026). I ask what kind of reality we want to inscribe into the world.
As part of a beautification initiative for the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Olympics, tens of thousands of palm trees were planted, transforming the city into the mirage of a semi-tropical paradise, a constructed “natural.” Nearly a century later, as the Olympics prepare to return for a third time, these palms near the end of their urban lives.
#arcadia #palmtree #losangeles
Nothing gold can stay, so thank you, August, for glacial snowstorms, deep waterfalls, and Los Angeles palm fronds in my studio
#rhonegletscher #glacier #switzerland @david_haberstich
Another look at Lake Boehmer, an oil well in Pecos County, Texas, dreaming of being an oasis. Born of a deeply human desire, it stands as a monument to a misconceived relationship.
For Lake Boehmer (37100006), I’ve recreated its chemical composition, proposing a new ‘natural’ through the lens of an aquarium.
#lakeboehmer #texas #oilwell #permianbasin #pecoscounty #exhibitionview #aquarium
