Based on phenomenological observations from the industrial mining of iron in southern Luxembourg from her childhood to current ecological measures to insulate facades in the streets of Berlin, Vera Kox develops an artistic practice that approaches the direct and indirect effects of the modern man-made age. Through unconventional material processing and experimental techniques, she crystallizes these influences into sculptural forms. Further, she analyses the inner life of her materials as well as their social and ecological readings — and, in doing so, approaches the so-called symbiocene, a term derived from contemporary ecological research used to describe the new interweaving, interaction and reciprocity of materials and objects across humanity and the environment.

For her first institutional solo exhibition, Kox takes the concept of deliquescence as a starting point, challenging a dissolution of solidified structures, textures and definitions beyond the material. Using special glazing techniques, casts of decontextualized surfaces or the transformative properties of aluminum, glass, clay and other artistic and building materials, she reveals newly created objects, wall reliefs and floor installations in various aggregate states. Flowing bodies characterized by liquidity emerge, which rather interlock and reveal themselves as metamorphic cycles.