BECAUSE YOU ARE GOLD (2026)
Materials: Plastic box and gold-coloured aluminium foil
Because You Are Gold is a sculptural work that explores the nature of value, beauty and perception. A simple plastic box contains a mass of crumpled, gold-coloured aluminium foil. The material resembles something precious, yet its fragile and discarded nature challenges our assumptions about what is truly valuable.
The work plays with the contrast between appearance and reality, between the ordinary and the precious. Gold has traditionally symbolised wealth, power and perfection, but here its familiar brilliance is transformed into something imperfect, fragile and unexpectedly intimate.
Perhaps being gold has little to do with material value or outward appearance. Perhaps it is something inherent in us, something that remains precious even when life has left its marks.
- Because you are gold — not because of what you possess, but because of what you are.