Elephant Woman: A History of Uploaded SELF
Description: Elephant Woman is a hybrid performance-installation that explores the tension between memory, identity, and embodiment through the speculative figure of a female cyborg/replicant infused with the memories of her creator.
The project investigates what remains of the “Self ” when consciousness is uploaded, fragmented, and mediated. It reflects on the burden of inherited memory and gendered embodiment, evoking the elephant as a symbol of trauma, resilience, and alienation.
Central to the work is the idea of non-corporeal parenthood: the replicant is, essentially, a child—a bioengineered shell—brought into being through memory, historical data, and intention. Her figure becomes an act of resistance and a statement of liberation from expectations imposed on the physical anatomy.
Elephant Woman stands as a contradictory metaphor, a genetically perfected, ideal figure that challenges and resists dominant cultural expectations of the female body as light, joyful, and motherly. Instead, it presents a body heavy with memory, experience, and resistance. The female silhouette becomes a powerful archive, capable of carrying generational histories, often silenced, into a new era of humanity
The installation unfolds through three interconnected elements:
– Sculpture, materializing moments of stillness, tension, and transformation—a figurative fusion of animal, cyborg, and human traits at its core, symbolizing the ongoing transformative nature of the human body.
– Video, revealing the memory of her meeting with the creator and accepting her story through this connection.
– Performance, culminating in a physical and emotional peak—embodying rupture, presence, and reclamation. It concludes with a final manifesto and initiates a new cycle: the transmission of knowledge to the next body
The Approximation / Speculative Organ of upcoming Genesis
Description: The Approximation is a sculptural and conceptual work that emerges from my reflections on the female reproductive system as something distinct from the female body itself — a system that functions autonomously, guided by its own logic. The piece explores the idea of biological multiplicity and the intersection between natural and technological reproductive strategies. It speculates on how nature offers a wide spectrum of reproductive processes, and how technology mimics, manipulates, or extends them. The Approximation suggests a fragmented, hybrid entity — a speculative organ that could belong to a non-human body, or perhaps a future version of the human. Through form and materiality I investigate how reproductive processes can be imagined not only biologically, but also mechanically, ecologically, and politically.
Sculptural form responds to the presence and touch of visitors, what intensifies “heartbeat” and expand the projected video.
CORE
Description: In this project, through collaboration with a photographer, I explored a deeper aspect of memory and how it is embedded within the human body. Using visual language, we aimed to penetrate the very essence of both the object and the body, as well as to find the connection between them. Simply put, I sought points of contact and fusion between the sculpture, which embodies the essence of my ideas, and the physical body that creates it, enriching this exploration with a layer of deep memory
The body here is presented as a mutable site of identity, where hybridized forms — part animal, part cyborg — emerge from a fundamentally human structure. Informed by feminist and posthumanist discourses, the work addresses the entanglement of gender, embodiment, and technoscientific influence. The sculpture embodies a fluid, unstable subjectivity, resisting fixed notions of the female body as a culturally inscribed and controlled object.
Cyborg ID
Project Description: Cyborg ID explores the creative and philosophical potential of AI tools within the framework of artistic research. By working with generative systems, I explored how artificial intelligence can shape, reflect, and challenge our understanding of identity, agency, and the boundaries between human and machine.
This work takes the form of an interactive website where users are invited to fill out a questionnaire designed to reveal both fixed and fluid aspects of identity. Drawing from thinkers such as Donna Haraway, with her concept of the cyborg and non-fixed identity, and Deleuze and Guattari’s vision of machinic bodies and schizoid flows, I intended to create a system that resists linearity and embraces multiplicity
Instruction:
- Enter the website: cyborgID
- Create one or more identities via the questionnaire.
- Select these sub-identities to generate a dialogue.
- Ask a question for them to discuss.
Elephant Woman: A Hidden history of Uploaded SELF
Description: An Elephant Woman is a metaphorical art film exploring the relationship between a creator and her replicant within the context of non-corporeal parenthood. The replicant appears as a bioengineered child — a shell brought into being through the collective memory of historical female data, and the intention of her creator. The film explores themes of gendered memory, resistance to physical limitations, and liberation through identity transformation, uniting the biological and technological in pursuit of a new form of existence.
