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The Aesthetics of Anacolutha

Bringing the World into the World

In a context marked by wars, political hostility, and a global tendency toward the entrenchment of authoritarian-patriarchal regimes in today’s international arena, Bringing the World into the World is a celebration of the maternal symbolic order. It is grounded in a vitalist ethics that affirms the life force as a dynamic process. [2023–2025]

We Are Imagoglossia
or What Can Replace an Absent Object?

No one arrives anywhere alone. Wherever you happen to set down your suitcase and rest, a strange feeling of an unfillable lack, an immense absence, will surface. You will search your pockets and look for the right words to name what you feel, but you will not find them. Seeking comfort, you will open your photo albums and recognize the objects and the people, but this will bring no relief.

Impossible Letters
What Can Replace an Absent Object?

Letters written but never sent; letters sent but lost; dreamed letters; letters never written, yet thought through line by line, word by word; torn letters, burned letters, silenced letters...

Ukraine 2022–?

On February 24, 2022, Putin’s army invaded Ukraine. This series emerged during the first year of the war.

During that time, a small story remained suspended within me: a woman who...

Anacoluthic Polyphonies