PROJECT OVERVIEW

What Remains is a research-led artistic project exploring how pressure,
censorship and historical trauma can remain active in the body after
external conditions have changed.

Rather than illustrating trauma directly, the work approaches its physical
and psychological residue through containment, spatial restriction, sound,
movement and moving image. The project asks how internal pressure can be
felt, seen and shared without reducing complex experience to a fixed image.

RESEARCH QUESTIONS

How can an installation make internal pressure and psychological restriction
physically perceptible without illustrating trauma directly?

How can the body, sound and spatial design hold the tension between
survival, containment and release?

What kinds of visual and sensory metaphors can communicate historical
and personal residue without turning it into spectacle?

INSTALLATION PROPOSAL

The proposed installation brings together projected moving image,
a live or recorded performance, an industrial electronic sound loop
and spatial elements that suggest containment and interrupted movement.

The audience encounters a space shaped by tension rather than narrative.
Custom turquoise basins, constrained pathways and shifting audiovisual
elements create a sensory environment in which pressure is not explained,
but gradually felt.

RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT

The project is developed through autoethnographic observation,
somatic movement research, spatial sketches and visual studies.

Current fieldwork focuses on the experience of containment in industrial
and transit spaces in Wuppertal, alongside research into performance,
psychoanalytic thought, sensory metaphors and spatial practice.

AI-generated visual study developed to model the project’s spatial
and emotional atmosphere, 2026. Not documentation of a final installation.

CURRENT STAGE



What Remains is currently in its research and development phase.
The project is being developed toward an installation and performance
presentation, with ongoing work on spatial design, moving image, sound
and material testing.

The artist welcomes conversations with curators, cultural partners,
researchers and potential production collaborators.

For project enquiries and collaboration: