When You Run on Earth and with Earth You Can Run Forever 2022

Through the language of archaeology, these ceramic objects reimagine contemporary running culture, appearing as unearthed relics. At first glance, they evoke ancient tools shaped by necessity, ritual, and endurance. Yet fragments of synthetic textiles—bright, manufactured, unmistakably modern—interrupt this illusion, revealing their true origin in the late-capitalist culture of performance, branding, and consumption.

For nearly two million years, the human body evolved as a running body. Running was not sport but survival; not self-improvement but relationship—a way of moving with the earth rather than across it. Today, running has become mediated by technology and aesthetics, where value is increasingly attached to what can be acquired rather than what can be embodied. These objects materialize that tension. Their ceramic forms suggest strength and permanence, yet they are fragile and unusable, stripped of the function promised by the gear they resemble.

What remains is not utility but symbol: objects that can no longer serve the body, only represent it.