Learning to Love Me (2005), installation / live performance (1h)
Skopje, Macedonia

In Learning to Love Me, the gallery space was divided into two sections.

The first one - open to the public - displayed five light boxes featuring black and white photographs of the artist interacting with herself (having an argument, cutting, licking, almost kissing, and sleeping together). The photographs illustrated a process of personal struggle, from self-rejection to self-acceptance, and from self-hate to self-love.

The second one, available only to the artist and located behind the walls displaying the light boxes, included a live performance, which the audience could only hear. The performance featured simple repetitive actions, such as breathing, breaking glass, self-cutting, screaming, running, hitting walls, and weeping, which slowly spiralled out of control and created an ambience that went hand-in-hand with the photographs.

Deeply intimate, the piece reflected on the artist’s personal struggle during a difficult time in her life, and explored basic human conditions of loneliness, fragility, vulnerability, and feelings of entrapment, desperation, and isolation.