Ship of Fools
National and international newspapers, wood; 20´ W x 24´ L x 4´ H
In Ship of Fools, the familiar becomes uncanny: headlines, images, and typeface folded into paper boats, adrift on a low wooden platform, invite viewers to reconsider the nature of authority and trust in the media. The installation conjures a sense of absurdity, a playful yet pointed critique that reveals how easily information can be elevated, manipulated, or trivialized.
By transforming newspapers into vessels of literal and metaphorical fragility, the work asks us to confront the gulf between what we are told and what we discern, the promises of objectivity and the perils of credulity. Humor, here, is not merely levity—it is a lens through which we perceive the contradictions and pretense embedded in the news, turning the familiar into a subtle spectacle of disorientation.
Ship of Fools is at once an aesthetic gesture and a philosophical inquiry, a meditation on the fragile vessels of information that navigate the turbulent seas of public consciousness.