It's Ok To Cry

Graduation Show at the Villa Arson - Nice/France

June 2022

I was under water.

Breathing.

and growing

and crying

and flying.

Disappearing into the landscapes of my childhood rooms.

Building my most beautiful castles

my most beautiful storms

my most beautiful moons.

The creation of an aquatic world - submerged in a blue environment, water and liquidity are omnipresent in the space and the sound of water drops envelops the whole ensemble. While the blue light creates a radical separation with the outside world, giving the impression of entering an imaginary space - a parallel dreamlike reality, the presentation invites to a sensorial experience and to self-interrogation.

The space was created to be experienced rather than just seen. The water on the floor, dripped from the fountain and the reversed bucket, as well as the sand castles, create the illusion of a landscape. Like being on a beach site, assisting on the environment's ever lasting movement and changing. Visitors can follow their own paths around the works, allowing for the creation of dialogues and stories between them. Dialogues that are even further expanded by the use of mirrored surfaces, creating a game of reflections and light projections. In certain moments, the spectators can perceive their own reflection, therefore becoming momentarily part of the work and allowing for introspection on a directly personal level.

In my work, I use familiar objects and material to stimulate the memorial conscience and generate new reactions towards them. Starting from personal and autobiographical elements, I break the narrative and incorporate openess to it by using abstraction and familiarity (familiar imageries). Thus, the ordinary becomes extraordinary and takes new reinvented perspectives and meanings. This installation is an open invitation for visitors to enter into my world, hoping they can find themselves through it and be touched on a deeper personal level.