83% Perfect Exhibition

Every baby is born with only one nightmare.

Someone* once told me that I was born under the banner of “I have to be perfect.” She said that this is the key imperative that I have lived with since birth. This project is, in some ways, an attempt to understand this.

Some of the artworks are based on my formative encounters with systems of individual ranking and assessment. Others derive from the past couple years of institutional hypocrisy and complicity in genocide. The exhibition looks at how these two things are related: how humanity, when defined as achievement, is quickly made worthless.

* the astrologer Julia Wawrzyniak-Beyer
Installation view of First Test, wood, paint, 2025. Variations on a memory of the first test I ever did.
Installation view of First Test.
Installation view of First Test.
83% Perfect, part one, paper, corkboard, 2025. A fable/poem also available as a publication.
Installation view of First Test and Furniture for Three Doors.
Furniture for Three Doors, discarded furniture from York University, free take-away poster, 2025.
Installation view of Acceptable Protest, collaboration with Emerson Maxwell, 15 min. 30 sec., 4K animation, 2025.
83% Perfect, part two, paper, corkboard, 2025.
Installation view of Acceptable Protest.
Installation view of Acceptable Protest.