Manque de mordant engages with the concept of the "living collection" (collection vivante), interweaving personal history and colonial legacy. At the core of the work is Sandler’s personal archive—an assemblage of teeth, bones, broken glass, fabrics, and ceramics— which forms the material basis of the artworks.
Drawing on Clémentine Delisse’s notion of the "metabolic museum" (The Metabolic Museum, Hatje Cantz, 2020), Manque de mordant examines the museum collections as incomplete bodies—reservoirs of fragmented identity and memory (…) holding cultural objects that cannot represent a whole, just as a single organ cannot represent an entire body. Sandler extends this biological metaphor to the physical body. Focussing on teeth, element of digestion, symbol of adaptation and psychic digestion and a recurring motif in her collection. 
These intimate reliquaries enter into dialogue with texts drawn in pastel on felted wool, excerpts from a mosaic of news articles surrounding the public discourse on the Humboldt Forum culture and science museum, Berlin and the contested status of its collections. This exhibition precedes a year and a half artistic residency at the Linden-Museum Stuttgart where Sandler will address the legacy of colonial collecting.