A Requiem for Silence / 2017

Plugging the ear becomes a symbol of enforced silence. This video art piece reflects on the footprints of the innocent people imprisoned in Buchenwald between 1937 and 1946—imagining their suppression, resilience, and shared suffering within the camp. The act of melting wax serves as an emblem of the physical force and barbaric tortures that defined their captivity. Images of starvation, forced marches in the cold, and the horrific use of prisoners’ skin as tattoos evoke the unspeakable brutality of dictatorial violence.

Unlike a constructed horror film, this work requires no fabricated sound effects. The echoes of suffering remain palpable today in the silent ruins of Buchenwald—in the empty cells, the wreckage of the camp, and the haunting stillness of the forest.

Video art becomes here a fusion of sculpture, painting, video, and performance. The piece strives to give visual form to the intangible dimension of sound, transposing auditory memory into a poetic and contemplative atmosphere.

Medium: painted clay, wax (paraffin), video, performance

The Nightmare of the Cellist, Forgetting the Notes and Her Cello-Bow While Playing Elgar’s Cello Concerto / 2017

This video art piece stages the cellist’s nightmare: a performer who, in the midst of Elgar’s Cello Concerto, forgets the notes and loses her bow. It captures the terrifying vulnerability of being unprepared, distracted, or unable to focus—a fear that haunts every performer. The imagined loss becomes more than a personal failure; it resonates as a metaphor for artistic fragility, improvisation under pressure, and the ever-present possibility of collapse.

By invoking Elgar’s Cello Concerto—an iconic work composed in the shadow of the First World War—the piece transforms this nightmare into a broader reflection on trauma, memory, and the lingering aftermath of violation and destruction.

Medium: video, performance, fabricated cello (wood and Styrofoam)