Sweet TerritoryInstallationSculptural installation with brown sugar cubesVariable dimensions2025Sweet Territory uses sugar—a material historically shaped by colonial expansion, plantation economies, and... Read More
Sweet Territory
Installation
Sculptural installation with brown sugar cubes
Variable dimensions
2025
Sweet Territory uses sugar—a material historically shaped by colonial expansion, plantation economies, and global trade networks—to reconsider the foundations of the urban landscape. Through a medium associated with both desire and exploitation, the work constructs a fragile architectural environment where order and instability coexist.
Balancing solidity and decay, permanence and collapse, the piece exposes the vulnerability of the social and material infrastructures that sustain collective life. Sugar becomes both building material and historical witness, carrying within it the traces of extraction, labor, and economic power that have contributed to the making of modernity.
By transforming this charged substance into an unstable urban form, Sweet Territory invites reflection on the hidden histories embedded in contemporary spaces and on the fragile systems that continue to shape them. The work operates simultaneously as a metaphor for urban precarity and as a material archive of the colonial and economic forces that underpin the modern world.
