Rewilding Faultlines [2025]: - Ausstellung und Performance-Karlstorbahnhof Heidelberg

Collaboration with  SAGA collective

On 17th of May 25 at Klub K Saga hosted their event "chapter VI, the blossom of spirits" with a line-up of local and international DJs.

The exhibition space was a room next to the dancefloor where I installed a series of oil paintings titled "Rewilding Fault Lines". Throughout the canvases I used small amounts of fluorescent pigments which I amplified using blue lights.

I started painting "Seismogram I" and II during a performance I made in 2022.

As I was reworking the canvases I also wanted to come back to the idea of combining paint and movement on stage.

Usually my performances build on music; the song "mutual core" by Björk embodied the world of "Fault Lines" and its feeling in sonic form to me - the tectonic ruptures of becoming.

I used different elements to tell a story of creaking woods, haunted, definitely, of glowing eyes on the side of the road, of a metamorphosis into insect state, a metamorphosis which does not end in alienation and despair, left to rot in a room in Prague.

The insect throws off her skin. Earth throws off her crust. Melts into heart chambers and ancient continents, bursts open their foundations.

The full performance was about 8 minutes, the video shows the second half:

Making-of: combining recycled materials and experimenting with costume building

For the costume I used canvas cloth as a base and added pieces of leather from a second hand jacket. On those pieces I formed shapes mixing moldable plastic and moss, as well as small amber pearls from a necklace. The fabric picked up paint during the performance, to be later used for a irregular canvas.

The ring is originally for hoop dancing. I wrapped a piece of foam packaging material around it on which I glued the cut off bottoms of PET bottles to contain the paint.

The mask I made using foam sheets and foam clay, on which I put decorations of moss and pearls, fixed with epoxy resin to give it a glossy finish. The eyes are recycled plastic material.

For the visuals I recorded details of the "Fault Lines" paintings layered into videos of hands smearing paint and tearing through a canvas, overlaid partially with close ups of magma.