Focusing on the ‘furnituresque’ elements of her sculptural practice, Uddenberg activates quasi-functional objects through performance. By introducing performers to ‘use’ or be ‘used’ by these objects, she extends her long-standing exploration of functionality as a mode of control. Much like in a BDSM contractual agreement, the body is willingly supported, entrapped, pampered, and ultimately rendered useless—all while being exposed to the public for consumption.

The artist draws inspiration from real-estate developments and luxury housing projects, many of which stand as uninhabited investment properties. Translating the symbolic values of real estate into her sculptures, Uddenberg incorporates design elements like textures, ‘skins,’ rattan, veneer, and other aesthetic markers. These components are reimagined as surface treatments for her new works.

Produced also through 3D printing, the sculptures embody a deliberate artificiality, becoming ‘fake’ even in their materiality. By doing so, they echo the superficiality of the luxury developments that inspired them, challenging the notions of value and authenticity embedded in urban aesthetics. Uddenberg’s practice becomes a lens to explore power, materiality, and the performance of identity against the backdrop of socio- economic and urban change. Her work invites audiences to interrogate their own positions within these systems of domination, artifice, and commodification.