Amor Fati
Wood, industrial shrink wrap
Colors of Ostrava Festival, Ostrava, Czech Republic

A tree tightly bound in industrial shrink wrap stands both as a monument and a wound. The plastic clings to its surface like a second skin, preserving its form while simultaneously suffocating it. The gesture is ambivalent intentionally: an act that freezes the tree in time while exposing the violence embedded in contemporary systems of production, preservation, and consumption.

The work does not position the artist outside these systems. It acknowledges complicity instead. The wrapped tree becomes a symbol of a fractured and poised relationship between the organic and the synthetic, between care and control. Attempts to preserve nature increasingly rely on the same industrial materials and technologies that contribute to its degradation.

Amor Fati also accepts its own failure. It does not propose a solution or offer a constructive ecological gesture. Its role is different: to stage the conflict and make it visible. Rather than suggesting redemption, Amor Fati exposes the uneasy entanglement between preservation and destruction, allowing the contradiction to remain unresolved.