Prem Sahib, 2025. Photo by Luana Rigolli

Quite early on, I began making a ‘twin still life’ using two identical desks in my studio, where I meticulously placed everyday detritus so that both forms eventually mirrored one another. I was thinking about the desk as a site of labour and knowledge production—except my desk mostly displayed signs of consumption—perhaps pointing to the ‘work’ occurring elsewhere.

Writing has helped me think through many of my ideas, and since being in Rome I’ve worked on two main texts. The first, a poem called Corruption? Real life, consists of dream fragments and prose that collectively form a kind of ‘scatter environment’. The second, Vape, is a short script I assembled from material I found in an online forum for a physical cruising site. I rearranged the conversation so that it read like a script with different acts.