Autobiography of a Volcanic Force, 2025

Audio/Reading 28min 
Handquilted hammock, ropes: textile, chains, cords, jewelry, beads, handembroidered quilts , incense, pommegranate, glass and cement coconuts

 

Autobiography of a Volcanic Force traces the body’s journey as a volcanic terrain—descending into its own depths, rupturing, and emerging transformed.
It stages a ritual passage through bodily descent, confrontation, and volatile transformation. Moving through layered terrains of the self, it enters states of abjection and dissolution as necessary thresholds for change.

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Spoken text conjures tremor, vomit, moans, and breath, shaping an archetypal drama that is both personal and collective. The performance enacts a cycle of yielding and reclamation, descending into buried matter and returning altered, charged, and alive. Its structure is rhythmic and breath-driven, marked by propulsion and suspension that mirror the body’s negotiations of fear, desire, and release. The ending carries an unmistakable erotic voltage—signaling a messy, generative rebirth.

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The installation’s suspended quilted hammock and array of ropes—wrapped in fabric, chain, and adornment—mark thresholds of binding and unbinding. Quilted offerings rest in quiet counterpoint, stitched invocations to yield, to decompose, to become fertile ground.

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Presented at Nadine Laboratory for Contemporary Arts, Brussels