MOUTH

MOUTH is an interactive installation that creates a “map of desire,” drawing from Lacanian psychoanalysis, where desire is structured around absence and the impossibility of fulfillment. It also engages with Julia Kristeva’s concept of the abject— a state that exists between subject and object, self and other, evoking discomfort and instability. The work overlays a topographical map of stars, particularly the Cygnus constellation, symbolized by a swan, whose, mythic traces reach back to ancient Thrace, around 6000 BCE. These early civilizational understandings of subconscious, the grotesque, and the carnivalesque, a site of never attaining, but always wanting to feel connected to the greater collective unconscious.