Memories Tainted with Black Gold #2, 2026
8 wall cavities and black paint

This is a continuation of the earlier installation, Memories Tainted with Black Gold. Through the carving of wall cavities and the application of black paint, the work intervenes directly in the exhibition architecture. The gesture exposes the fragility of the so-called “white cube”, not as a neutral container but as a material and ideological structure that can be marked, damaged, and altered.

Rather than presenting damage as an external event, the work stages it from within the institution itself. The walls are no longer passive surfaces but become sites of inscription, rupture, and memory. The black pigment signals oil, extraction, and residue, linking institutional space to histories of exploitation and violence that are often rendered invisible within exhibition contexts.

By physically wounding the konsthall walls, the work challenges the presumed purity and stability of the white cube and insists on its vulnerability. The installation treats the exhibition space not as a protected environment but as a body capable of bearing traces, scars, and contaminated memories.