(Typewriter text, stamps, passport photograph, print on A0 billboard format)

Selected for the 2025 Onboard Biennale, The Application responds to the theme of Relationships by reflecting on the quiet parallels between artistic and everyday encounters with bureaucracy. Centered around a fictional document, the work blends surrealism with the familiar cadence of administrative language, issuing a denial laced with fabricated sanctions and obscure regulatory warnings.

Installed in public space, the piece engages passersby with a form that feels both official and slightly off. Its exaggerated tone exposes the performative nature of institutional authority, inviting reflection on the broader sociopolitical structures that shape access and legitimacy—within the art world, and far beyond it.

On view from 14 to 28 July 2025 – Cockerillkaai (across M HKA), Antwerp city.