My interdisciplinary practice involves performance, installation with sculptural elements, painting, and video. I employ these mediums to explore the notions of repetition, ritual, displacement, trauma, and mending. Taking its roots in psychoanalytic feminist theories, my work is investigating the concepts of the Feminine, as well as the alternative subjectivities. In various modes, they inform my approach to structural and three-dimensional form and methodology for performance creation and execution.
In painting, especially while working with thread as a medium, repetitive body movements are imperative for creating compositions, the surface carrying imprints of invisible, hidden actions. The unordered and ordered link borders; the habitual qualities of the material are being subverted, transformed, and molded into a new state. Dark, muted colors, sculpted surfaces, are named after elements and female entities in Greek mythology.
The notion of repetition comes into play with the transformational power of expanding small gestures and marks into larger organized structures. The old, found, discarded materials are given new life by transforming them into new sculptural entities and compositional arrangements by pressing, imprinting, concealing them behind the layers of paint.
Performance and video allow for utilizing the body as a medium. Employing traditional domestic tasks and crafts as a starting point, I proceed to deconstruct and unravel the process or action. The body is a site of battle, transcendence, contradiction; mythological female entities are transformed, fused into contemporary subjects, creating new personal mythologies and realities. Woven together, knotted on the body, knitted fabric is destroyed by giving it a voice, hair is being obsessively cataloged and counted, or measured and sewn on canvas, lemons squeezed.
Creating site-specific installations is a way to engage with the history and architecture of each space. Working with a space as a body, a hurting body, a healing body, a dreaming body is a way to produce environments that otherwise would never exist outside the realm of unconscious.