SECURITY BUBBLES

About the Work

Safety Bubble is a sitespecific installation created in a bunker that explores themes of safety, perception, and collective behavior. At its core is a collection of bunker air, symbolizing protection and security. This air is offered in small, spherical objects reminiscent of air bubbles and presented in a gumball machine. Each sphere contains a temporary tattoo, allowing visitors to symbolically “mark themselves as safe.”

The work draws on historical and psychological reference systems. Inspired by the stickers used during wartime blackouts to recognize one another in the dark without colliding, it translates the idea of orientation and communication into a contemporary context. The symbol on the tattoo depicts an eye embedded within a Hexagon a shape referencing the artist’s signature, but with the letters replaced by the eye.

By combining physical objects, historical references, and performative actions, the work creates a tension between intimacy, playful interaction, and collective experience. Visitors are invited to experience safety not only as an abstract concept but as a sensory and social practice. At the same time, the work questions the symbolic construction of protection, the role of rituals, and the ways in which we mark spaces, boundaries, and belonging.

Historically, the work situates the experience of protection and fear within the traditions of wartime architecture, symbolic communication, and performative interventions. Critically, it addresses contemporary debates around safety, autonomy, and the sensory mediation of control in public space.

Exhibtitions

2025 HONIGSCHLEUDER, Lichtbunker, Hannover, DEU
2025 SALON SALDER, Salzgitter, DEU