Through a body of works inspired by personal events, I examine what it means to be a product of traumas and the relationship between trauma and self-preservation. By obverting the idea of the grotesqueness of decay, my work sheds light on the relation between the in-separable elements that shape our sense of self.

My artistic practice largely relies on exhibiting objects based on the ready-made principle. Through these objects, charged with symbolism that retains the sublimated desire to celeb-rate self-transformation and an ‘overcoming’ of despair, my work displays how meaning changes with context. Combining objet trouve with rough and unrefined yet strangely digni-fied clay forms forges a personal sense of ambiguity around understanding the self. An in-stallation transformation of these sculptural objects of layered complexity gives meaning to the emerging art encounter. By evoking conflicting subconscious emotions in the viewer, their anterospective viewpoint of the experience provokes new ways of thinking about self-reflections and the inevitable changes that bring order into traumatic chaos.

My work captures transformation as a natural life cycle that creates beauty by giving a new identity to a degrading form, therefore celebrating changes. Thus, it turns out not just an image of a person but a transformed embodiment, which also conveys an essence. In this case, it is the embodiment of my own.