Slippery Words

Slippery Words is a series of life-size sculptures made in plaster and silicone. The pieces act as visual metaphors that capture the tensions of language, how words can allude without reaching, slip through the fingers, or vanish as we try to express what we feel.

Each sculpture evokes that unsettling moment when a word begins to form but fades away, escaping us. In its rigid surface fragility is suggested, and within its solid form emptiness can be sensed. With these shadows of fullness, the work represents both the weight of what remains unsaid and the aspiration for our expressions to acquire substance.

Slippery Words was first presented in the solo exhibition Des-Comunicados at Set Espai d’Art Gallery, Valencia, alongside the installation Mouthsaic and the series Dictionary of a Lost Communication, together exploring a shared atmosphere of linguistic dislocation.

Beyond form, the work asks: what happens when our language is not enough? When words betray us, or when we feel estranged in our own voice? Slippery Words inhabits that in-between space, where the said and the unsaid coexist.