Toxic Love: Part 1

An Exhibition by 2Win! Studios

Set inside a real motel room, Toxic Love: Part 1 transforms a familiar space of escape, secrecy, and longing into a confessional shrine to heartbreak. Drawing from the language of emojis, pop objects, and emotional extremes, the exhibition reflects on the obsessive, self-sacrificing, and often masochistic dimensions of love.

A cake shaped like a girl-face emoji sits on a pedestal, a knife piercing her head as a single teardrop falls down her cheek. Below her, ceramic letters spell out "Good for you!" — a bitter congratulation that reads like a breakup text wrapped in passive aggression. Nearby, a small figure kneels in pink lingerie, her cuffed hands bound by heart-shaped links. It's desire made decorative — sweet, restrained, and waiting to be consumed.

Subtle but piercing symbols echo throughout the room: a motel-shaped lamp hidden inside a closet alludes to secret rendezvous, shame, and the spaces where toxic love hides in plain sight. A red ceramic stop sign has been rewritten to read “Please stop,” turning a command into a plea. Even acts of connection are tinged with longing — a soft vase depicts two hands grasping one another, its neck shaped into gentle heart-shaped handles, fragile and impossible to hold forever.

With Toxic Love: Part 1, the Ferrer Twins reimagine the motel room as a psychological landscape — a place where pain, play, and romantic delusion blur. Through clay, light, and symbolism, they explore the shadowy undercurrent of passion, where vulnerability becomes performance, and heartbreak becomes ritual.