Boat of Madness assembles found and modified objects, video, furniture, ceramics, and other paraphernalia into a loose constellation of artifacts drawn from wandering literary and cultural histories. Taking cues from the writings of Jean Genet, François Villon and others, the installation unfolds as a fragmented environment where vagrancy, outlaw figures, and marginal lives quietly circulate.

The title alludes to the historical figure of the “ship of fools”—a vessel once imagined to carry society’s outcasts beyond the borders of order. OAOA is interested in the uncertain condition of such a voyage: a drifting space where some might recover, some transform and others move further into excess or estrangement. Arranged in a staged, display-like interior, the objects form a heterotopic setting where nostalgia, devotion and disobedience coexist.
Installation view at Billytown, Den Haag, NL

(Variable media,2010)