Heel, 2024

Solo Exhibition and Performance
(Center of Art Research Hangar and Safra, Lisbon)

The word heel refers simultaneously to a part of the body, a part of a shoe, and also to an obedience command used to train a dog to walk close to its handler — a skill considered notoriously difficult to master.

During her participation in the international residency at the Hangar Artistic Research Center in November and December 2024, the artist developed a project centered on the figure of a woman-dog, inspired by Portuguese folklore. Addressing themes of domestication and wildness, rage and servitude, intimacy and politics, the project seeks to highlight the structural misogyny inherent in societies.

The exhibition presented works exploring material transformation and site specificity. Clay sculptures made from earth collected by the artist near Lisbon were shown in plaster coated containers. The presentation included clay soles, handmade candles, a bread sculpture, burned wood works, metal and textile elements, and a copper wire leash activated in performance.





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- to cover ; - to impregnate, 2023

Solo Exhibition and Performance
(Kimonos Art Center & Rally Art Space, Paphos, Cyprus, curated by Yiannis Sakellis)

The personal exhibition explores the phenomenon of name changing as a metamorphic practice present across cultures and historical periods. A new name could serve to outwit fate: to recover from illness, escape a curse, or symbolically begin life anew. In Cyprus, where name change is reduced to a bureaucratic procedure, this ritual acquires an expanded, almost paradoxical dimension.

This wordplay of the name unfolds through sculptures and pictorial works created with ashes and blood. Each piece emerges from the body or through it, oscillating between revelation and concealment.

The exhibition brings together works produced during the residency and examines the medium as a trace of bodily and elemental interaction. A textile sun print made with the artist’s body, papier-mâché masks covered in ash and menstrual blood, casts of the inner mouth cavity in salted dough, a modular installation of wire and textile, and an ash fresco construct a field between the living and the lifeless, presence and disappearance.




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