“Handle with Care” is an installation using mud, sculptures of porcelain towels, and metal water pipes. The two materials - mud and porcelain, originate from the earth, shaped by microorganisms, minerals, and time. The mud comes from the Dragoman Marsh in Bulgaria, a site located near the Serbian border, marking one of the borders of the EU. It also lies along one of the major migratory bird routes - Via Aristotelis, and is a place that was dried out from the mid-20th century until the political changes of 1989. It is a liminal space.

The mud is raw, shifting, and alive, part of an ecosystem in continuous transformation, carrying traces, memory, and decay. It absorbs and accumulates, forming a living archive of change, adaptation, and the interconnectedness of all species within the ecosystem. From another perspective, porcelain also originates from the earth, but undergoes extensive processes and extremely high-temperature firing. Towels can be seen as tools of touch. Made out of porcelain, they become frozen monuments that hold the trace of the body.

“Handle with Care” explores shifting memory and the social structures that shape communities and their environments, opening space for reflections on care.