Statement
My practice is driven by a desire for bodily autonomy, growth, and not-yet-imagined becomings. My projects are long-term conjurations that merge intimate collaborations, fieldwork, material experimentation and speculative methodologies to create a space of ever-mutable form anchored within a queer and trans ecology framework. I work across installation, photography, design and performance, imagining proto-habitats that create a sense of collectiveness, belonging, rest and care. My approach relies on collaboration and shared experiences to build frameworks that are politically rooted yet open to x-topian explorations.
I am interested to think about the exhibition space as "khôra". Khôra is a philosophical notion of a pre-form space. It holds an important connection to transecology as a receptacle where things come into being before being named. It is the ooze, the primordial ocean mud floor. Within this space I want to think of alternative materiality as a mode of emergence, seeking definition of what “a trans- or fem- architecture" might be. I work with substances that mimic biological processes; waxes, mud and clay slurries, plant resins, bodily by-products such as urea, blood or sweat, and hybrid bio-composites inspired by recent research into protein based binders.
Biography
Saturn A. have been awarded the Emerging Visual Artist Residency at Cove Park (2024), the VACMA Visual Art and Craft Award (2022), and the CCA Lab Residency (2021), and were twice nominated for the Swiss Design Award. Their work has been exhibited at the CCA Intermedia Gallery, Transmission, Kunstmuseum St-Gallen, Photoforum Pasquart, and at Art Basel during the Swiss Design Awards (2015, 2020). Performances include Space Sporification presented at Double Thrills by Buzzcut Glasgow (2022), Nachtschicht #24 in St-Gallen (2021), and Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (2021).
My practice is driven by a desire for bodily autonomy, growth, and not-yet-imagined becomings. My projects are long-term conjurations that merge intimate collaborations, fieldwork, material experimentation and speculative methodologies to create a space of ever-mutable form anchored within a queer and trans ecology framework. I work across installation, photography, design and performance, imagining proto-habitats that create a sense of collectiveness, belonging, rest and care. My approach relies on collaboration and shared experiences to build frameworks that are politically rooted yet open to x-topian explorations.
I see the
exhibition
space as
proto- habitats. In my projects such as An imaginary garden with real toads in them,
the garden a transecological habitat that re-envisions transness and dysphoria through the lens of interspecies relationships. Space Sporification is a futuristic spaceship café combining queer oral history interviews with animations that react to the audience’s collective heartbeat.
Transitional object, the room becomes a new-refuge of selfhood and trauma healing.
Across these works, I treat space as a becoming condition, something that co-evolves with bodies, materials, and narratives. A space in between, a place of fragility and constant negotiation, seeking independence from binary relation.
I am interested to think about the exhibition space as "khôra". Khôra is a philosophical notion of a pre-form space. It holds an important connection to transecology as a receptacle where things come into being before being named. It is the ooze, the primordial ocean mud floor. Within this space I want to think of alternative materiality as a mode of emergence, seeking definition of what “a trans- or fem- architecture" might be. I work with substances that mimic biological processes; waxes, mud and clay slurries, plant resins, bodily by-products such as urea, blood or sweat, and hybrid bio-composites inspired by recent research into protein based binders.
I consider the exhibition space as a site of radical hospitality, an architecture that leaks, metabolises and transforms through collective labour. Its instability becomes a way to think of identity not as essence but as motion: something held, dissolved, absorbed, shared.
Biography
Saturn A. have been awarded the Emerging Visual Artist Residency at Cove Park (2024), the VACMA Visual Art and Craft Award (2022), and the CCA Lab Residency (2021), and were twice nominated for the Swiss Design Award. Their work has been exhibited at the CCA Intermedia Gallery, Transmission, Kunstmuseum St-Gallen, Photoforum Pasquart, and at Art Basel during the Swiss Design Awards (2015, 2020). Performances include Space Sporification presented at Double Thrills by Buzzcut Glasgow (2022), Nachtschicht #24 in St-Gallen (2021), and Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam (2021).