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and their stillness lies in their openness to being explored and listened to

Bringing the World into the World

Against a backdrop of wars, political hostility, and a global trend towards the entrenchment of authoritarian-patriarchal regimes, Bringing the World into the World is a celebration of the maternal symbolic order, 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 irreparable loss, an overwhelming absence, will surface. You will search your pockets, look for the right words to name what you feel, but you will not find them. Seeking comfort, you will open photo albums, recognise objects and people, but none of it will bring relief.

Impossible Letters
What can replace an absent object?

Letters written but never sent; sent but lost; letters dreamed, letters never written but imagined line by line, word by word; letters torn, letters burned, letters left unspoken...

Ukraine 2022–?

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

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

Anacoluthic Polyphonies