A used condom containing traces of semen is preserved in a transparent resin cube. It rests on a bed of red glitter hearts — symbols of romantic love, mass-produced and disposable — and is framed like a biological artifact, titled Specimen No. 0001.
The work juxtaposes the intimate with the clinical, the emotional with the absurd, the transient with the eternal. By fossilizing a remnant of sexual activity and placing it in a mock-scientific, kitsch-laden context, the piece invites reflection on the contradiction between human meaning-making and nature’s impersonal reproductive logic.
Are we lovers, agents, or just vehicles and vectors for DNA? In this sterile reliquary, even desire becomes evidence, and love is reduced to packaging.