Palingenesis, 2019

Palingensis is an immersive installation—an emotional landscape shaped by desire, longing, grief, pleasure, and the complex entanglements between them. The room becomes a circle of the inner world, where the boundaries between pain and pleasure, sex and intimacy, hope and illusion blur and dissolve.

Have you ever mistaken desire for love? Pain for pleasure? Symbol for the real? This work asks these questions not to answer them, but to sit within their charge. Through drawings, paintings, and moving images, Palingensis explores the raw vulnerability of the human heart—where to fall is to feel, and to feel is to be remade.

Wounded forms lean gently against walls—half-broken, half-born—marking the silent disclosures of a self reckoning with its own thresholds. To honour hurt is to honour joy. To name failure is to open the space for truth. In this new body of work, image-making becomes ritual—a way to empty, endure, and begin again. To mark raw hurt is to give thanks to intense joy.