Omphalos-The Navel of the World
This question emerged from both professional crisis and personal catastrophe. As a scenographer, I recognized that scenographies in their institutional settings were perpetuating anthropocentric dominance and instrumentalisation of natural phenomena. Simultaneously, a near-death experience during childbirth and my child's chronic illness forced me to negotiate daily with reality. I was keeping us alive through medicine and diligent rituals. In the research, I investigate forms that challenge placement by investigating ideas emerging from the votive and medical ritual. These works are not representing reality but generating a relation with reality through sensory encounter. It also shows that cosmologies arise from art and care itself. The artist is a creator of organizing structures of our consiousness and placement.
