I wear my flesh like a necklace is a diptych artwork divided in two parts: an installation and a soundscape. The installation was exhibited at Exist festival (Athens) and represents the first and physical part of this project. The second one is an eponymous track translating it sonically. 

 

This project recounts the feeling of being torn apart, between emotions, places and time. All of which are hanging in an uprooted mental space. Wether is it due to immigration, a geopolitical context or because we feel like we don’t belong, I wear my flesh like a necklace seeks to translate the violence that resides in melancholia.

 

It traps us inside an inner imaginary land, gathering memories of places of both the past and the present - as well as the fantasy of an alternative reality. As we dwell in this place, we burst into flames, torching our last hopes and ripping ourselves to shreds. But only these shreds can lead us onto the process of sublimation.

 

Rising up and creating beauty, not to romanticise pain but to use this fuel as a tool for empowerment and endless strenght. This title translates with poetical violence that our flesh is both our home and our prisons. Despite how many times it got torn, scratched and hooked -just like these lates sculptures- our soul stays as pure are pearl within that shell of ours. Beauty can always arise and reign, only if grow out of our pain.