Intimate Introspection: artist and/or society is a site-specific work with variable dimensions, installed in frequently used public spaces. It is made from used cardboard boxes for packing and transporting products, collected from local small private businesses. By deliberately choosing an inexpensive, common material—one mostly associated with the poorest, whose existence depends on available recycling systems and whose voices are often unheard—I build a platform to textualise artists’ complex and precarious position in society today.

Confronted with the brutal occupation of public space by neoliberal capitalism, supported by the governing elite, alongside the ongoing privatisation and exploitation of natural resources and the continuous degradation of human and animal conditions and overall quality of life, one is required to remain constantly alert, responsive, and participatory, driven and guided by the urgency of the present.

Tormented between the expectation to be active and involved—often interfering with the intimate processes of creation that may require solitude and isolation—and the desire to remain unruly and dispossessed by anyone or anything, one lives in a limbo, caught between everyday practice and refusal.

These personal observations, frustrations, and thoughts, combined with texts from various sources (ranging from poet Marina Tsvetaeva to theorist Claire Bishop), written among logos, photographs, and commercial texts already printed on the cardboard boxes, create an image in which private and public, individual and collective, singular and plural collide.

Later dismantled, the work continues to exist in fragmented and disseminated forms throughout the space and beyond, ultimately returning to those who need the boxes, until all its parts are completely recycled or destroyed.