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Video Installation


This project explores loneliness as the state of having to enter or escape an altered condition. It is understood through the lens of neuroscientific brain activity. The brain becomes both the driving force and the sole means of navigation in moments of extreme distress, sleep paralysis, vivid hypnagogic visions, paranoia, or, in more severe cases, disassociative episodes.

The work is inspired by the N1 stage of sleep, the threshold between wakefulness and dreaming. Research shows that time spent in this transitional phase during sleep onset is associated with an increased capacity for creative problem-solving. N1 is a liminal zone where perception shifts, the body releases control, and the mind drifts into autonomous momentum.

This video installation explores a space where loneliness is where fear and creation feed each other.

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