Lujza Kramárová

 

 

What choreographs the contemporary body? What unseen forces are shaping our desires, behaviours, futures? Through the interplay of sculptures, light, scent, and sound, Taste, State, Behaviour (Xenohormones) confronts the supposedly immaterial agents that mediate contemporary embodiment.

 

The work begins with hundreds of sculptures recalling the sorts of containers used in the cosmetic, pharmaceutical, and wellness industries. Among the ingredients in the sculptures’ material foundation are cadmium, copper, soya, petrochemical derivatives and zinc — elements and compounds that can be classed as xenohormones (substances produced outside the body that mimic or disrupt its hormonal activity) and are commonly found in everyday consumer products. We are arguably more familiar with the seductive promises of such products than their molecular make-up, yet the ideals they sell are grounded in biochemical realities.

 

Frequencies deepen. Light shifts. Scent densities fluctuate. A physical tension settles. You step, bend, turn, and adapt.