OAK, »Bikini Atoll III«, Wandteppich, 250 x 125 cm, 2024
OAK, »Bikini Atoll VII«, Print on Toile-de-Jouy, 2024
OAK, »Are You Ready Ready [ape whisperer]«, Hammersmühle-Print, 2024
OAK, »Memento Mori_V 2.0«, Oil on Canvas, 67x43cm, 2024
OAK, »Rider, Blue (Wassily Hog)«, Polycarbonat, 2000x790x1220cm, 2024
At first glance, the object appears to be a mundane roadside sight – a motorbike under a protective cover. Yet in this sculptural transformation, the supposed shell is no longer a mere layer but the very body itself. Crafted from high-gloss, vespa-blue panels, the form preserves every crease, fold, and sag of the original tarpaulin. What was once a pliant fabric, conforming to something hidden, has become a rigid, autonomous skin, a chassis without a discernible engine. In this process, the original form has become extinct, its utilitarian existence sublimated into a higher state of being – an evolved presence freed from its function.
The work inverts the relationship between object and covering: the vehicle beneath remains imagined, absent, and ultimately irrelevant. The viewer encounters not a machine, but the permanent solidification of its absence. In this way, the sculpture channels the paradox of concealment as revelation – how the denial of a direct view can sharpen attention to form, texture, and volume. By monumentalising a fleeting, everyday gesture, it suspends time, turning the ephemeral into an immutable artefact. The result is an abstracted silhouette, recognisable yet estranged, a meditation on the aesthetics of veiling, the autonomy of the in-between, and the strange beauty of extinction as transformation.