«Yield Point», 2026

in private collection yield, n.: the point at which a material stops deforming elastically and begins to deform permanently. yield, v.: to give way under force; to surrender, concede, or submit. lately, i have been working with two extreme modes of the psyche: participating in one’s own experience and observing it. in my previous cycle, the metaposition was central. i explored distance through the image of a future archaeology, where experience already exists as a trace and as material for observation. in the right pressure, i shift the focus towards returning to the body. for me, bdsm practices became one way of approaching this return. the voluntary transfer of part of one’s agency creates a situation in which force exists within clearly defined boundaries. the other person retains their own will and defines the limit of what is permissible. this allows objectification to remain controlled and embedded within reciprocity. i am interested in what happens to this logic when bdsm enters the field of fetish aesthetics, pornography, and mass culture. its visual language is easily retained. reciprocity is not necessarily retained with it. at this point, an asymmetry emerges. one person preserves the right to act, while the other is reduced to an object of their will and to the consequences of their decisions. this structure opens onto broader social questions. i am interested in human interchangeability, as well as in the asymmetry of responsibility and consequences, where one person’s sense of entitlement ends with someone else paying the price.