Niv Fridman works at the intersection of sculpture, surrealism, and speculative archaeology, transforming everyday substances—especially food—into sculptural forms that are both seductive and disquieting. His practice recontextualizes materials associated with nourishment and intimacy, such as chocolate or crackers, to explore themes of decay, identity, and historical ambiguity.

Fridman’s works often blur the line between artifact and organism, as seen in his large-scale chocolate sculpture created in collaboration with Confiserie Sprüngli. Simultaneously evoking ancient ruins and decaying flesh, the piece bubbles and cracks like something unearthed—or not yet dead. This tension between sweetness and discomfort, consumption and erosion, recurs throughout his practice, shaping a unique material language that probes the body, time, and transformation.

Drawing from imagined excavations and fictional pasts, Fridman constructs hybrid relics—part myth, part mock-museum object. These uncanny artifacts question our relationship to preservation, memory, and truth, gently destabilizing the boundaries between the real and the invented.

The theme of Obscured Organisms aligns with Fridman’s fascination with unstable forms—those that mutate, resist classification, or appear in flux. Working with ephemeral materials and speculative histories, he exposes the fragility of the systems we use to categorize the world.

His works invite viewers to reconsider the edible, the grotesque, and the perishable—not as anomalies to fix or decode, but as invitations to embrace ambiguity, transformation, and the beautiful instability of meaning.