
Photo: Blaz Gutman
Love Can’t Pay Us Rent
The Ruse – Love Can’t Pay Us Rent presents a series of 3D-printed miniature lovers with paper bags over their heads, delicately arranged on white pedestals. Suspended between play and vulnerability, these anonymous figures navigate intimacy under quiet pressure. Their small scale and isolated placement reflect the precarity of relationships strained by economic realities—where love exists, but can’t always pay the rent.
Materials: Miniature figures, domestic objects, motorized light elements, animation, sound, works on paper
Dimensions: Variable
Year: 2024–2025
Exhibition:
Gallery of Contemporary Art, Celje 2024
Galerija Vžigalica, Ljubljana, 2025
Photo: Blaž Gutman, Matjaž Rušt, Tomaž Črnej