Statement

 My work explores the human body under duress.

There is often a struggle between being myself and conforming to a highly censored and controlled society. The human body carries the physical toll of emotional and mental damage. Anger, disappointment, and shame—feelings I experience under coercion—grow and accumulate inside me like a tumor: an ugly, festering, invisible mass that consumes from within.

Metamorphosis becomes an escape. I imagine turning into stone made of flesh, so I wouldn’t have to feel pain—or anything at all. I wear layers of masks to protect myself, but in doing so, I’ve lost who I am. Ambiguity is everything—and the only thing that’s left.

My work is a process of self-realization, exposure, and dissection. The human body becomes a memorial of trauma, showing what’s been done to it from the outside. It also mirrors the internal process of self-denial, mutilation, and hiding. Everything shows up on the flesh—brutally and honestly.

I want to ask myself, and those who encounter my work:

Are you truly who you appear to be?