Custody, 2024 

Aluminum Tubes, Wood, Tree,  280 × 180 × 75 cm 

Presented as part of Studio Exxx’s ongoing exploration of living environments, “Custody” examines the ambivalent ways in which care can also mean control. Rather than offering a didactic explanation or a simple ecological message, the work invites confrontation. It places the viewer in front of a relationship that is simultaneously tender and problematic, raising questions about what it means to “look after” nature while at the same time limiting its freedom. By placing natural and artificial elements side by side, Custody reframes the human–nature relationship as one of dependency, overprotection, and unintended violence. The installation asks audiences to reconsider not only how environments are shaped but also how the very idea of care may conceal acts of restriction. Through this direct yet unsettling image, Studio Exxx opens a space for reflection on the fragile and often contradictory ways contemporary societies approach the natural world.