"Return of Innocence" #1
Video 8 min. Videostills. © 1996. From the exhibition "When the Shit hits the fan"
I built a cave in my living room using objects and materials from my apartment.
I imagined myself as Joseph Beuys, creating an installation from everyday items that carried my own stories — much like Beuys’ felt rooms.
His “felt rooms” were spaces where the materials themselves carried symbolic meaning — warmth, protection, memory — and invited reflection on life, survival, and human experience.
By referencing Beuys, my cave-installation becomes a personal adaptation: everyday objects from my apartment were transformed into a lived-in environment, carrying intimate stories and memories.
I lived in the cave for a few days, inhabiting the space I had constructed and letting the materials become a personal, performative world.
