SWUŠ
Swuš, (b. India, 2025)
“Winds blowing over the waters: flood.” I-Ching
A cycle of rituals that follow a journey of rebirth. The onomatopoeia ‘swoosh’ evokes the sound and movement of rushing water, the perpetual flow of life. Hexagram 59 of the I-Ching oracle is dissolution, dispersion, when all structures are washed away by the flood. Devastation is an invitation to face our deepest fears with imagination even when we do not know what form the world will take when the waters subside. Each action explores states of dissociation and loss of meaning when faced with uncertainty.
The artworks of this series are in dialogue with Hexagram 59, unfolding the secrets of the oracular message to navigate the heartbreak of personal and systemic collapse.
Body, voice, flowers, clay, fire, ash, bells, cotton dyed with palas flowers, turmeric, plaster, wood, hair, yarn, civet cat skull, cow bones, vulture feathers, ink, paper, colour pigment, water, dimensions variable
A Ritual of Love for the Heartbroken, India (2025)
Live action and installation
The cycle begins in Khajuraho, famous for its Tantric temples bearing imagery of couples engaged in erotic play. The human forms are framed by abstract, swirling friezes and patterns that resemble watery hieroglyphic inscriptions.
What would eroticism become in an androgynous body?
I performed a sacrificial tonsure at sunrise on 22 March 2025 at a natural crater formation in Madhya Pradesh (India), dedicated to the sage Bhrahaspati, and connected to the planet Jupiter. It was accompanied by an installation featuring drawings as scores for exploring androgynous imaginaries, sculptural works developed in receptacles used for holding water (bottles, a hose, copper vessels), naturally dyed textiles, a prayer mala made from my own hair and a live electronic composition of the electrical activity in the room.
I then made offerings of my hair to Mother Ganga at Varanasi in an oral ritual of remembrance. Going out on a boat at dawn,I recited out loud the names of all my ancestors and sang to the unknown women who were excluded from the lineage records.
3 channel moving image, 4k with original sound
Swuš: the Wedding trilogy (2026)
The Wedding is a ceremony of death and rebirth in three parts: The March, The Vows, The Dance. Each part deepens a binding intimacy with the Earth. It enacts an intimate and erotic rite in which the loss of self becomes a passage into a visceral entanglement with the fate of the Earth.
Exhibitions;
Meeting Your Land, various venues, Mount Etna 2026
