A wedding ring, tennis balls, a pearl necklace, badminton rackets, t-shirts and a hair braid — items once held onto for personal reasons — are transformed into new entities.

Each artwork begins with a story. Individuals contributed objects that carried memories: love and divorce, youth and identity, inheritance and embarrassment, achievement and change. Through conversation and collaboration, these belongings are let go of and reconfigured into sculptural forms. The objects no longer function as they once did, yet they continue to hold traces of their past.

At the same time, the exhibition asked a broader question: what happens to the materials themselves? Plastics, metals, synthetic fibres and mineral compounds do not disappear when their emotional value fades. They persist — in landfills, in oceans, in bodies, and within ecosystems. The artwork labels show ingredients in the way we are used to seeing them on food products, but not usually on other products we acquire. What we produce and accumulate circulates back to us.

Across the gallery, works were physically connected through chains and hoses and crossed boundaries between inside and outside. The installation becomes an ecosystem rather than a collection of separate pieces.

The collaboration with poet Yvonne van Hest adds another layer of reflection. Her texts respond to the objects and the stories behind them, emphasising the emotional dimension of release.

Letting Go is not about renouncing memory. It is about recognizing that attachment and material consequence are intertwined. To let go is not to erase — it is to transform.