MAKE UP (2025/2026)

Installation, 180 x 60 x 50 cm

Cosmetics, alginate, water, glass, magnet pump, UV filter, aluminium extrusion, lights

Make Up transforms cosmetics into membranous forms using techniques borrowing from molecular gastronomy and ocean ecology. Foundation, eyeshadow, shimmer and lipgloss become organisms that pulse and shift continuously, refusing fixity.

The title operates as a quadruple entendre: genetic makeup, reconciliation, invention, and the literal cosmetics we apply daily. It connects personal ritual - the labour of making up our faces - to evolutionary scale: our origins as membrane-bound creatures in primordial oceans.