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Stock·werk (2022)

and the bilingual pun that unlocked its entire meaning...

It all began with the visual power of brutalism in social housing  - the weight and anonymity of concrete high-rises. I wanted to capture that stark geometry and the "pain", so the German title "Stockwerk," meaning 'floor' or 'story,' felt like a simple, literal fit.

Language has layers. The word split open: Stock (the English 'asset' or 'share') + Werk (the German 'work of art'). This dual meaning is the blueprint. The high-rise isn't just a metaphor for the art market; it's also for the personal 'Hochhaus'.

A  life constrained by income. The 'Stock-Werk' becomes the hope for escape: the paradox of using a cold, abstract system to fund a warm, human dream.

We were told digitalization would be the "way out of the high-rise," a path to democratize art. But what if it just built a more exclusive penthouse? This is the core question: is this true freedom, or just a more complex cage?

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