The Tender Relation stages a set of encounters between a female figure and mid-century furniture within a domestic interior. Fragmented compositions and stark black geometric forms recall the legacy of modernist abstraction, while gestures of use become uncertain and charged.

What begins as an image of function slips into one of misalignment and intimacy. Body and object are treated as equivalent elements within the frame, producing a choreography in which neither dominates and meaning remains unstable. The furniture operates not simply as a prop but as a fetish form: an object invested with excess affectual attention, suspended between utility and desire. The resulting tension resists familiar narratives of objectification, shifting attention away from the body as image and toward the tender relations between surfaces, pressures and gestures.

By combining diagrammatic clarity with moments of erotic confusion, the work invites a slower engagement with the image, one in which order and desire coexist, and abstraction becomes a site for both control and excess.

All works are Untitled. 2026