A performance-based sculpture made from the incinerated remains of a pink teddy bear, the love object shared by the artist and her ex-fiancé over eight years. The bear, once kissed nightly and carried between continents, was incinerated. The resulting ash was encapsulated into pill capsules and consumed by the artist over eight days, one pill for each year of relationship.

LOVE PILLS™ reframes emotional dependence as a form of chemical withdrawal. Drawing on pharmaceutical future-facing biotech, the work poses love and limerence as both medicine and addiction. As desire and dosage. The pill bottle becomes a reliquary, an artifact of memory, tenderness, and technological prophecy.

What if we could buy limerence? Prescribe connection? Treat absence with a synthetic substitute? LOVE PILLS™ speaks to a future in which human emotion is measurable, manufacturable, and commodified—fed into systems of surveillance, care, and control.

This work asks: how do we survive after love ends? What supplements must we take?
And what… if anything, can be refilled, if access is only “While Supplies Last”?