HOW TO CARRY A FLOOR, 2026
Five floor tiles hesitantly navigating the room on springs, in a search for a constellation / arrangement that will encompass them.
Made possible with the support of CBK Rotterdam
Opening of the group show "Floor is Lava" at Joey Ramone Gallery, Rotterdam
Photo taken by Mikołaj Stojanowicz
"How to carry a floor" was created for the group exhibition “Floor is Lava”, as part of Kunstpodium T Apprentice/Master program.
The work emerged from group conversations about the carriers that facilitate our coming together.
A practical comment during the installation planning—regarding the need to be careful with the gallery floor became a conceptual turning point. It led me to reconsider the floor as an unstable carrier of the exhibition, and to imagine how it could be disrupted, deformed, and reactivated toward an ontological confusion of its function.
The work “How to carry a floor” imagines a movement that is both self-sabotaging and self-motivated: an entangled navigation through orders and systems, constantly questioning the arrangement of things. It emerges from the idea of carriers as entities in an identity crisis.
When trying to exteriorize the act of the carrier, it unfolds as an endless effort to extend, push, uplift, or support, while simultaneously being affected by forces that tilt and change it. Maybe those forces are carrying the carrier too?
Within my practice, I continuously play with the roles of materials, forms, and images. A “car” might carry a parade behind it, but it can also grow out of its supporting role and become a subject itself—almost as if caught in an internal disorientation. The crocodile figure, which recurs throughout my practice, is carried through different kinetic constellations, but can she also be thought of as the carrier of the movement, of the idea, of the essence of the work? Is she present here, underneath the floor?
Through this proposed constellation, and the rearrangement of weight, gravity, and hierarchy, I explore how the floor, as a carrier, might slip into another register—one of seeking agency, a search for a form, or deform.