art

routine | baby cradle, wire dry-clen hangers | 2025

Routine (from the French word route, meaning “road” or “path”), the term implies movement along a prescribed course – an action returning to the same trajectory over time.

I approach the cradle not as a sentimental relic, but as a structure. Traditionally tied to ideas of devotion and care, here it operates as a container – an architectural volume that holds and organises rather than comforts. It becomes an archive of the frameworks that quietly shape a life: systems of order, repetition, and regulation. The hangers, stacked and interlocked, resemble an exposed ribcage – an internal scaffolding. The installation foregrounds routine as structure. Hangers index cycles of laundering, sorting, storing, displaying. They suggest an economy of maintenance – tasks performed daily, invisibly, predictably. Order is achieved through repetition; discipline through arrangement. The curved interior of the cradle transforms into a compressed archive of standardised forms. Femininity appears here not as representation but as infrastructure. The woven structure, often associated with naturalness and protection, now contains a compacted grid of manufactured forms. Organic and industrial materials cohabit, exposing tension between romanticised motherhood and its socio-political conditions. Each hanger gestures toward a body that may be clothed, disciplined, or withheld from expectation.

Every body enters a world structured by law.
Every cradle floats within ideology.