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STATEMENT OF WORK
Möller’s sculptures and installations transform central bacteria and fungi culture to form living artworks, touching upon themes of mothering, belonging, and alienation. Möller was born in China and adopted by a Swedish family at the age of one. Within their practice they investigate the personal symbolic meaning of a SCOBY, an acronym for “symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast.” In an exploration of their roots, Möller cultivates SCOBY with the help of tea and sugar, classic colonial goods. They work with substances requiring continuous care. Sculptures reference a mythological creature Feng, who most resembles a lump of rotten meat. They are a kind deity who, because of their repulsive appearance, are doomed to walk the earth forever alone, detached from their origins. Their work highlighting the tension around the ambiguity of kinship and the inherent need to cultivate connection between all living things, across species and even beyond biological relationships.