Kiki and Bouba is what happens when sound and shape stop pretending they’ve never met. The title comes from a psychology experiment run by V.S. Ramachandran on a Californian beach at the turn of the century. He showed two cardboard shapes to the sunbathers he found there–one all spikes and angles, the other smooth as a lullaby. He asked which was “Kiki” and which was “Bouba.” Almost everyone pointed the same way, as if the names and shapes had been waiting for their reunion all along.

That reflex sits at the heart of this piece. Kiki bristles. Bouba flows. One sets the nerves on edge; the other pours balm over them. No story, no instructions. Just shape. The rest arrives uninvited – felt, not figured out.

Kiki and Bouba reminds us: the body often knows what the brain’s still googling. That even nonsense can land as truth. That meaning doesn’t always need a reason – just the right form, seen in the right moment.

Oil, alkyd and polyurethane on foam-backed 4 mm ACM sheet.

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