de:manifestation
de:manifestation is an ongoing artistic research project that began with the MA graduation work (de)manifestation: scenographic moments in two parts, presented in 2024. It has since developed through a series of iterations across performance, scenography, sound, installation, and moving image, later continuing under the title de:manifestation / _.
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The project investigates how identity, perception, and social inscription are shaped and destabilised through spatial dramaturgy and embodied presence. Its focus is on femininity as a social and affective construction, and on the forms of exhaustion produced by pressure, self formation, visibility, and compliance. Scenography is approached as an active narrative force that structures experience through space, sound, light, body, and imagination.
At its centre is a female figure exhausted by the demand to become someone within social and existential expectations. The work follows her encounter with a forest entity associated with relief, calm, and dissolution, where pain, memory, and imposed identity begin to lose stability.
Conceptually, the project examines thresholds between human and beast, exterior and interior, landscape and institution, witness and participant, image and presence. These thresholds are treated as dramaturgical conditions to be constructed and tested across different forms.