Andromeda

Andromeda is an installation developed as part of Rites of Passage with a paper dress composed of xeroxed texts treated with Brazilian coffee. The work functioned as both an independent piece and a scenographic frame for a live performance, situating material transformation as a central formal concern. Installed within the architectural space of the Universität der Künste Berlin, the piece foregrounds paper as a surface of inscription, marking, and bodily reference.

Chained to the building’s columns, the piece presents a double of the dress worn by leo during the performance The be_coming, creating a suspended echo between live action and its material remainder. The installation references the figure of Black Andromeda, the Ethiopian princess of Greek mythology; thereby, it mixes myth and history-telling with processes of racialization. Through the doubling of the dresses, the piece meditates on political becoming and how bodies and stories are translated, fixed, and held within institutional space.