Burial of the Dead, 2017 (4 hours)

Conceived during a period of profound grief, Burial of the Dead is an elegy dedicated to the artist’s late friend, Alice de Barrau. Realised as a four-hour durational performance within an immersive installation, the work occupies space with unapologetic physical and emotional force.

Ceiling to floor, the installation is composed of geometric structures and decaying materials, evoking the fragile boundary between life and death. The materials speak to impermanence—what holds for a moment before disintegrating—and the quiet violence of mourning that distorts perception and order.

Through fierce bodily tension and sustained endurance, the performance breaks the logic of linear time. The body becomes a conduit of remembrance and rupture, interrupting the viewer’s comfort and rational flow. Burial of the Dead offers no easy catharsis; instead, it holds space for rawness, for what remains unresolved, and for grief’s ongoing, uncontainable presence.