2022: HUMAN - Performance - Beamed Dance Film Festival

HUMAN was a performance that explored the tension between vulnerability and resilience—what it means to hold onto one's humanity in the face of forces that seek to erase it.

At the heart of the performance was a physical struggle: I began beneath a stretched fabric fixed to a canvas, a constraint both literal and metaphorical. Through movement, I pressed against the surface, creating traces of presence before tearing through, cutting myself free. Water and paint merged with the fabric and skin, marking the canvas with the body's resistance, with the imprint of struggle and survival.

This performance was born from a time of war, a response to the loss of humanity within it. But beyond a singular event, it speaks to the quiet and violent ways in which dehumanization takes hold—and the necessity of reclaiming presence, agency, and connection. The traces left behind on the canvas serve as a record of that moment: an imprint of body, movement, and refusal.

I performed this act two times, once outside at the "QZM Straßenfest"

and at Altes Stromwerk during the Beamed Dance Film Festival in Mannheim 2022.

The canvases I used later became the basis for a series of paintings titles "Fault Lines."