Bound Forms

Bound Forms (2025)

Bound Forms (2025) is a material-based installation that explores how the performative and material aesthetics of kink can be mobilised within contemporary art to deconstruct institutional power structures. Through an interplay of industrial and sensual materials—such as chain, cement, aluminium, latex, and leather—I develop an abstract visual language that reimagines the bodily, relational, and affective tensions inherent to BDSM and kink practice.

This work emerges from a critical engagement with power: who holds it, how it’s distributed, and how it can be subverted. Dominant ideologies—patriarchy, heteronormativity, purity culture, and the nuclear family—construct rigid frameworks that marginalize those who do not conform. Within this context, kink becomes a site of resistance. Its taboo status reveals societal discomfort around vulnerability, control, and difference. Bound Forms does not seek to fetishize kink, but rather to engage with it as a methodology: a way of staging, feeling, and unraveling power.

The installation creates an immersive, liminal environment—one in which the normative logics of the everyday are suspended. Like kink spaces, which operate through negotiated rules and consent, the installation invites viewers to navigate shifting dynamics of tension, pressure, resistance, and release. Through large-scale, abstract forms and sculptural gestures, I explore how material can hold, bind, or yield—mirroring the psychic and physical negotiations central to kink.

Ultimately, Bound Forms asks what it means to embody the taboo, and what these embodied experiences can teach us about the structures we inherit and the agency we might reclaim.