Code: Red

 

2025, lipsticks, MDF boards frame, 40 x 40 x 10 cm

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“Code: Red” signals a state of emergency—emotional, social, political. It marks the buildup of pressure, both internal and external. Between conformity and resistance, between the gesture of adornment and the desire for voice.
Here, lipstick becomes a document of tension and constraint. It transforms into a weapon, a silent cry, an act of defiance. Captured within a wooden box, it becomes part of the Herbarium Collection—an archive not just of fragility, but of resolve.
What is preserved here is not simply an object, but a social dynamic. The intimate act of beautification is caught mid-transition—as it becomes an action aimed outward, against imposed models, expectations, and silence.

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