about mosaics:

‘It is my portrait made of natural stone mosaic, I have a necklace in my mouth and I chew on the glass. At first, I was supposed to be holding ceramic hearts necklace, but then I realized that tenderness was absolutely not the feeling as to how I perceive myself and what I wanted to express. So I made a bead out of broken glass.

I do not see my life as a beautiful, heart-shaped path - I experience a lot of horror and pain, but I process everything, overcome it all and still survive ... This bead is very beautiful, it has a fantastic sound, but it is also very sharp and dangerous.’ 

About Neon:​

Dreams themselves, at least for me, are very intimate things, very rarely I share them with anyone ... It is an extreme form of sensitivity for me, something only I know and I have experienced.

The artwork reads: I WAS DANCING IN MY DREAM AND I FEARED NO-ONE. IT FELT MAJESTIC, IT FELT ECSTATIC, BEAUTIFUL. I WAS EXPLODING IN JOY.

As the artist explains, the sentence was inspired by a beautiful dream she had and wanted to translate into a physical form. The pinks and purples of flickering neon heighten the poetic dimension of the text and remind of those beautiful ephemeral visions.

However, by placing the neon piece on the floor, the artist highlights the extreme fragility, both of the work and those emotions. It is as though that level of vulnerability and openness is destined to be mercilessly crushed.

And indeed, throughout the exhibition, the work was damaged multiple times. As a solution, the artist placed the sign on a strip of bricks that might be read as a metaphor for how we cope with trauma.