Gulliver
Installation – 130 x 176 x 30 cm
Materials: wood, iron, clay, oil, acrylic
Year: 2001
Gulliver is an ironic and ambiguous sculptural metaphor on the tension between strength and vulnerability, centrality and marginality. At its center, a large, shell-less snail—stylized, black, and imposing—emerges from a white pedestal. Its body is composed of driftwood and a metal moped stand, suggesting antennae and evoking a helpless, awkward being. Surrounding it are six smaller, black stylized heads arranged in an oval. Each wears a thin, elongated tongue supporting a small snail shell. Their dynamic postures and the tongue-like shells create the impression that the tongue itself is the snail, with its fragile shell as home.
The piece serves as a surreal theatrical tableau in which the small threatens the large, while the large dominates through silent immobility. It's a reversal game that interrogates power dynamics, belonging, and the subtle tension between protection and attack, individual and collective.
