Luxuria – White Edition

Edition 1/5

Each box contains 5 white pills

The Luxuria Pill series reflects on the boundary between medical use and desire.

In this edition, the pills are reduced to a handheld scale.

Each box contains two round pills and three pills in a typical ecstasy shape, placed in a custom foam inlay.

Each pill carries an embossed symbol.

size of the box:  53 x 35 x 10 cm

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Pill White Edition

The pill is the defining object of our time. We swallow it for pain, for sleep, for mood, for desire — the line between necessity and appetite is thin. 

It begins with the round tablet. The most familiar pharmaceutical form, stamped with Luxuria — lust — in the typeface of Bayer, the company that gave the world both aspirin and heroin. The word Luxuria changes everything. What the industry sells as necessity, the body often experiences as desire.

From there, the set escalates. The remaining forms are drawn from ecstasy culture — the capsule, the diamond, the oval — shapes pressed in illegal laboratories, stamped with luxury logos — imitations of legitimacy for recreational hunger. Here those forms are reclaimed with something more honest, more deepening: symbols from nature, science, and ancient tradition:

 Aesculapius, god of healing. 

The Caduceus of Hermes, transformer and guide of souls. 

Phi, the Golden Ratio underlying all living proportion. 

The Fravashi, protective spirit accompanying the self toward higher potential.
Five sculptures in pearl white, nested in black foam, sealed in a box bearing the artist’s mark. A complete course of treatment. A prescribed collection. You open it and look down.  You are the one deciding what is necessary and what is simply desired.