Sirena
2024
live performance approx. 30min
live performance approx. 30min
video performance 6min
created within #CleanWaters Artistic Residency in
Sulina, Danube Delta, Romania
My hands are full of salt,
I swim with my sisters.
I swim with my sisters.
The character of the Decolonial Mermaid, born in response to extreme injustice, brutality, and human-inflicted violence, embodies a resistant narrative through water. She performs a decolonizing poem on the coast of Sulina, addressing two seas. The mermaid drowns in the Black Sea and reappears in the Mediterranean, swimming through the Bosphorus, while collecting artifacts from the wars witnessed by these waters. Although the sea is her natural habitat, she fears entering it. By repeatedly stating, "My white body entering the Black Sea," the mermaid confronts personal, racial, cultural, and ecological oppression.


Performance, INACT Festival of Mutant Arts, Sale des Colonnes (Strasbourg, April 2025)

Performance, Kultürchen & freiebühnejena (StadtLab Jena, December 2024
Video piece shown at the group exhibition at the Museum Municipal Calarasi (RO)