This project is in which painting, dance, and music come together to form a shared language. My large-format paintings are the starting point. In them, I deal with everything that holds us back—tightness, inner constraints, and patterns that have become deeply ingrained. While painting, I often experience a moment when this sense of confinement begins to dissolve and something new emerges. With “drop the mask,” I want to translate this process into movement.

In the performance, dancers respond directly to my paintings. Their movements pick up on the lines, tensions, and openings within the works and make visible what is already embedded in the imagery: the journey from holding on to letting go. At the beginning, the bodies carry masks or coverings that seem self-evident—just like the patterns we tend not to question in everyday life.

As the performance unfolds, these masks are removed, opened, or transformed. I observe how the space shifts with each layer that falls away, how movement becomes freer, and how the body reclaims its own presence.

The music accompanies this process and opens additional dimensions. It is not a

backdrop but an equal partner. Sounds intensify, expand, break open—mirroring the movements and the visual language. This creates an atmosphere in which my paintings can not only be seen but experienced.

With “drop the mask,” I want to encourage people to face their own inner masks. I want to create a space in which change becomes tangible—not sudden, but as a quiet, continuous unfolding. It’s about becoming honest with oneself, questioning the familiar, and making room for new experiences. If art can achieve anything, it is this: offering an impulse to meet oneself with greater freedom and to see the unknown not as a threat, but as an opportunity.

For me, this project is an invitation: to let the mask fall, to release old patterns, and to move toward a more open and authentic version of oneself..