"Untitled" (lacuna) is a video performance set on a loop, born from the personal loss of my brother, who passed away on the day of my birthday. In this piece, both as the artist and the mourner, I interact with a cake that stands as a fragile monument: a symbol of my brother's image, his sweetness, and as a symbol of birthdays. Through repeated gestures of cutting, decorating, and transforming the cake, I attempt to reconstruct an image of him that memory refuses to preserve.
CREATIVE DIRECTION / PERFORMANCE ART
Each transformation echoes the shifting way I remember his face, hands, and presence, fractured by absence, softened by grief, and blurred by the mind’s need to fill in what’s no longer there. Rooted in the psychological notion of “lacuna” (gaps left by absence), the work reflects the subconscious struggle to preserve what is fading, revealing how grief is not linear but cyclical, how love and memory endlessly reconfigure themselves in the looping rituals we create to hold on.