Adam Olsson

The wardrobe is a piece of furniture designed to organize, conceal, and structure. But it is also a spatial manifestation of norms, what is allowed to be seen, and what must remain hidden? An object that, within queer theory, symbolizes the tension between private and public, between norm and deviation. A place where identities are constantly negotiated, where safety is fragile and belonging is conditional.

Here, queer semiotic signs, both historical and contemporary, have served as tools for reshaping the structure in both its physical form and symbolic meaning. Through subtraction and abstraction, these symbols have been transformed into physical interventions and iterative form experiments.

The result is a collection and composition of these iterative fragments, where traditional dichotomies such as inside/outside, front/back, visibility/invisibility are broken apart and made negotiable. It is a materialization of a critical reflection on how everyday objects function as carriers of implicit power structures, with the hope of opening up a broader conversation about what the objects around us communicate, whether we notice it or not.