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Christelle Oyiri

“Heaven’s worth, Hell on earth”

11 September 2025 -
18 October 2025

Christelle Oyiri

 

“Heaven’s worth, Hell on earth”

 

11 September

-18 October 2025

 

I was raised under crucifixes 
where every whisper was measured against eternity 
I learned early on that the most dangerous prayer
was the one said backwards

 

Hell is so ordinary:
a body on the verge of collapse,
a mirror that won’t forgive,
desire stretched across every surface

 

Heaven’s worth
is the tape you found in an attic
buried in static, 
hissing like a secret you were not meant to keep

 

Kemet, dreamt in aluminum
a monument half-remembered, half-invented, 
America, the precious counterfeit twin
Fantasy and fracture

 

This work gathers both paradise and purgatory, 
How heavy are memories when casted in metal to survive ?
What is holiness without a lick of transgression ?
What is paradise if not built in the threat of fire ?­

 

C.O.

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Christelle Oyiri

“Heaven’s worth, Hell on earth”

installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2025

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Christelle Oyiri

“Heaven’s worth, Hell on earth”

installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2025

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Christelle Oyiri

“SANCTUM (Now is a ghost)”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, crystal clear resin, painted wood
135 x 50 x 50 cm

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Christelle Oyiri

“SANCTUM (Now is a ghost)”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, crystal clear resin, painted wood
135 x 50 x 50 cm

detail

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Christelle Oyiri

“SANCTUM (Now is a ghost)”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, crystal clear resin, painted wood
135 x 50 x 50 cm

detail

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Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2025

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Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: ALL ABOUT THE MONEY - DJ SQUEEKY

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Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: ALL ABOUT THE MONEY - DJ SQUEEKY

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Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: ALL ABOUT THE MONEY - DJ SQUEEKY

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Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: SMOKED OUT, LOCED OUT - THREE SIX MAFIA

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Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: SMOKED OUT, LOCED OUT - THREE SIX MAFIA

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Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: SMOKED OUT, LOCED OUT - THREE SIX MAFIA

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Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: ASHES 2 ASHES, DUST 2 DUST - TOMMY WRIGHT III

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Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: ASHES 2 ASHES, DUST 2 DUST - TOMMY WRIGHT III

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Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: ASHES 2 ASHES, DUST 2 DUST - TOMMY WRIGHT III

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Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: 10 WANTED MEN - TOMMY WRIGHT III

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Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: 10 WANTED MEN - TOMMY WRIGHT III

Heavens worth, Hell on earth — Christelle Oyiri — Exhibitions — Galerie Buchholz — Image 21

Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: 10 WANTED MEN - TOMMY WRIGHT III

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Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: COMIN OUT HARD - 8BALL & MJG

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Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: COMIN OUT HARD - 8BALL & MJG

Heavens worth, Hell on earth — Christelle Oyiri — Exhibitions — Galerie Buchholz — Image 24

Christelle Oyiri

“SIGILS”, 2025
aluminum-charged polyurethane resin foam, aluminum tubes
5 parts, each:

12.8 x 20.8 x 2 cm

detail: COMIN OUT HARD - 8BALL & MJG

Heavens worth, Hell on earth — Christelle Oyiri — Exhibitions — Galerie Buchholz — Image 25

Christelle Oyiri

“Heaven’s worth, Hell on earth”

installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2025

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Crystallmess

“DOOMSDAY BASS”, 2015-2025
mixtape on cd, signed tape (AGFA super ferro dynamic I 90+6), 53’44”, vintage Bang & Olufsen B&O Beosound Ouverture

installation view Galerie Buchholz, Berlin 2025

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Crystallmess

“DOOMSDAY BASS”, 2015-2025
mixtape on cd, signed tape (AGFA super ferro dynamic I 90+6), 53’44”, vintage Bang & Olufsen B&O Beosound Ouverture

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Crystallmess

“DOOMSDAY BASS”, 2015-2025

mixtape on cd, 53’44”

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