Concept
The project centers on the investigation of transformation—how a person navigates pain without disappearing. How they change, shed former forms, assemble new ones, and find resilience in this process.
My own artistic practice serves as the starting point. I revisit works created across different periods, viewing them as material that can be reassembled, reinterpreted, and integrated into new relationships with the viewer. Clothing, objects, and images transition from the space of fashion to the space of the exhibition, becoming part of the installations.
The exhibition is divided into five sequential states. They chart a movement from openness and trust through confrontation with painful experiences and the shifting of habitual modes of perception—toward acceptance, recovery, and the search for a new way of being.
The central motif of the project is the princess. I employ her not as a specific fairy-tale character, but as an archetype of openness and vulnerability. Throughout the exhibition, this image constantly shifts: the princess ceases to be a fixed character and becomes a way to trace how experience reshapes a person—their relationship to their body, strength, defense, and capacity to trust.
Transformation occurs not only within the narrative but within the works themselves. The pieces change scale, function, and the way they interact with the viewer. What once existed as clothing, an image, or a discrete object becomes, within the exhibition, an environment, an installation, or an action. Some works imply direct interaction, while others exist as the residue of a past event.
The exhibition consists of five galleries—five stages of personal transformation. Each gallery captures a new state: openness and trust, confrontation with painful experience, internal restructuring, the formation of new defense mechanisms, and acceptance of what has happened. As the viewer moves from space to space, they observe how my own works transform along with the heroine—changing their form, function, and mode of interaction.
