Crit Club is a performance where two teams debate an unrealistic question about art.
In a field where disagreement often feels risky, Crit Club creates space for critical play. Rather than rehearsing praise or silence, participants are invited to engage in disagreement—as performance, as roleplay, as thought experiment.
Ongoing series of sculptural interventions in the form of modified caution wet floor signs. Each object features a custom-printed message that mimics institutional signage while subverting its authority—blending humour and critique. Following memetic strategies, the signs operate as site-specific interventions whose logic unfolds cumulatively, becoming clearer as more signs are encountered.
These works approach ordinary objects as both instruments of precision and stages for belief, recasting them as totems of faith, deception, and desire that expose the dogma within claims of neutrality.
Museum Bread is a live fermentation project in which a sourdough starter is initiated at an exhibition opening using no added yeast — only flour and water, ideally sourced locally. The fermentation begins through contact with the air of the space and whatever visitors bring with them: breath, skin, atmosphere, microbes. The starter is cultivated in public view and used, in collaboration with a local bakery, to produce bread throughout the exhibition.
By growing a living culture inside the museum, the work plays on the double meaning of “culture” as both microbial life and the collective practices, values, and meanings we preserve and display. The starter becomes an edible archive — a portrait of the institution and its public, shaped by their presence. In doing so, Museum Bread questions how culture is created, preserved, and contextualised within the space of the museum, and what it means to consume the very thing the institution seeks to keep.
Adaptations of digital meme formats into physical objects, shaped in response to specific institutional or cultural contexts. These works translate the logic, tone, and timing of online memes into material form—rendering them as sculptures, prints, or signage. Detached from the screen, each piece becomes a kind of frozen punchline or critical artefact, tuned to its site while retaining the recognisable language of internet humour.
Situated Meme (Palette), 2024
Reference Meme, 2020
Reference Meme, 2022
Study, 2023 (Print on canvas, 40x30 cm)
Reference meme template
Cem A. will collaborate on making a meme with the person who acquires this artwork. The resulting meme will be shared on @freeze_magazine. The collaboration will be documented with an artistic receipt to the name of the collaborator. This receipt constitutes the artwork that the collaborator acquires. The artistic receipt does not warrant the possession of the resulting meme. The resulting meme can only be used for non-profit and academic purposes.
Reference meme
Board game, print on paper
