Scissors are my favourite tool.

I come from a place where rape and abuse against women remain often unspoken, something to hide and to be ashamed of. An unspoken seed carrying with itself the plant of a huge monster.

Keep silent. Nothing happened. Move on.

But time doesn't heal wounds and the abyss refuses to close its mouth. Sometimes the abuse comes from someone we love or trust.

There are too many stories like this. Stories of pain and silence.

Scissors are my favourite tool, I said.

We need sharpness and precision to make space for ourself and cut pieces away that do not belong to us anymore. In this performance scissors are not a tool, they are an extension of my body, they are my voice.

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Text and photos from 'Love is a flower in the shape of a white corpse' 3,5 hours durational performance

Jan 25th 2020 at Pandora and Sisters

Untergeschoss der Pandora Art Gallery, Berlin

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This performance is the second and final part of a process started at Venice International Performace Art Week where I performed a slithering bride moving through the rooms and stairs of Palazzo Mora for 3 hours. Trying to get up, falling, failing, succeeding, failing again.

In this second performance the wedding dress appears again. Hidden scars lying in forgotten places of the body are evoked and emerge as wounds and repressed voices telling mixed stories of love and abuse, memories and anger. An old telephone and scissors lie in the room, time vanishes in the infinite repetition of obsessive actions.