A performance-based sculpture made from the 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 made into a concentrate. The resulting solution was encapsulated into pharmaceutical pill capsules.

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. A future where love is fed to us and used on us, in systems of surveillance, care, and control.

This work asks: how do we survive after love ends? Will the pharmaceutical industry offer relief to aches of the heart?
And what… if anything, can be refilled, if access is only “While Supplies Last”?