Weaving together collective history and personal narrative, Lukas Heerich creates forms that are both abrasive and vulnerable. Themes of protection, isolation, and power are staged in environments marked by an intensified material presence. At once agoraphobic and claustrophobic, his works shape psychological spaces – repositories of neurosis, phobia, and contemporary anxiety. In collaboration with curators Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou and featuring Precious Okoyomon, Heerich explores a poetry of disaster, where rawness collides with intoxicating sensuality.

For the max goelitz booth, Lukas Heerich presents a spiraling fragment, encircled by a pink environment composed of "infungible" paintings. The sculpture – a kind of fallen tower, architectural ruin, skeletal or encrypted signal – and its surroundings together channel the neuroses of the metropolis: sensory overload, hyperesthesia, fragmentation, and absence. But beyond this tension lies a subtle attentiveness to space – a sensitivity that is deeply relational. Heerich doesn't just build environments; he composes conditions of encounter, where the architecture outside us meets the architecture within.

Excerpt from the text A Poetry of Disaster by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou.