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"Rupture" Performance
I am a Spanish multidisciplinary artist currently based in Cambridge. . I completed two years of foundational art studies in Madrid, Spain, before completing my BA Fine Art at Anglia Ruskin University.
My work explores the transmutation of lived experience: the way trauma hardens around a person until protection itself becomes a prison. I am interested in the "husk" — the brittle architecture we build to survive, which eventually becomes the very thing that stifles our growth.
Performative Installation
My practice translates my personal history into a sensory experience of breaking. In this performance, I inhabit the cage nude, my skin entirely encased in a layer of dry, brittle plaster. What begins in absolute, suffocating stillness transitions into a frustration, helplessness, visceral struggle of movement. Driven by the memory of desperation, anxiety, and the claustrophobia of both an abusive and sexist history and a grieving womb, the plaster "skin" begins to crack and fall.
Thanks to the sound system, the minimal noises of the falling material are amplified, turning a silent mental struggle into a deep and unsettling sound experience for the audience.
By placing broken plaster fragments throughout the room, I invite the audience to participate in the destruction. As viewers walk around the cage, their weight grinds the remains of my history into dust. Through this physical complicity, the viewer becomes part of the weight that breaks the survivor, while simultaneously aiding in the process of pulverizing the past so it can finally be blown away.
"Rupture” is an invitation to witness the moment protection becomes a prison. Rupture inhabits the space between the stillness of a solidified history and the violent, beautiful effort of breaking free.
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