Untitled (Study for Sod All), 2025

Drawing from the aesthetics of folk art and vernacular architecture, Caspar Heinemann explores the interconnectivity of spiritual, political and sexual counterculture. Developing narratives across sculpture, performance, writing and drawing, Heinemann considers how queer storytelling might be harnessed as a mode of opposition. This edition has been made in conjunction with Heinemann's first solo institutional exhibition in the UK, 'Sod All' at Studio Voltaire, 2025, in which Heinemann furthers his explorations of the politics of land, folk revival and spiritual histories. The unifying concept for this body of work is the word sod. The term has multivalent applications, variously meaning the ground, the soil itself, or a person’s native ground. It can also refer to an unfortunate man, a gay man, a lucky man; used to express something difficult, or feelings of anger. In Biblical Hebrew, sod is an untranslatable word, often interpreted as ‘secret’, but also as meaning a council or circle, and the highest level of mystical interpretation.