Dreams Once Buried Beneath The Dungeon Floor Slowly Sprout Into Undying Gardens
[ art direction, performance, costumes, video installation]
In collaboration with Tara Dalli , Máximo de Vries, Herwig Scherabon
For my master’s thesis, I conceived the costume design and art direction for the performance within The Clinic of The Unbodied. Performed by Tara Dalli, the piece unfolds at the threshold between material and immaterial states, where a costume made of water-soluble plastic gradually dissolves through contact with water. This act of disappearance exposes the fragile boundary between human and non-human, turning the costume into an active agent of transformation.
Inspired by El Libro de las Fuerzas by Julián Galay, the work explores how memory, time, and matter extend beyond human perception. The costume, designed as a hybrid organism combining organic and synthetic elements, reflects on decay, permeability, and continuity. Through a precise yet sensorial direction, the performance stages a state of transition where body, material, and perception merge into a single, unstable form.