sent but never
received

SITE-SPECIFIC INSTALLATION | LISBON _ 2022

Before I moved to Lisbon, I ended a 9-year relationship and not long after I found myself in another short but all the more intense relationship that persisted in a kind of secret, fantasies and hopes about the love that we all long for but often do not understand because we have never even experienced it. We all interpret love differently and its definition is based on the complexity of our personality. After losing contact with this idealized loved person, I found myself in a state of grieving and analyzing my previous romantic relationships and understanding love in my own context.

During this period of emotional rollercoaster I wanted to talk to my loved one, I started writing long messages and emails that I wanted to send but ultimately I did not. By writing things down it brought me a temporary and partial relief however the thoughts and unspoken words filled the room. The space became inhospitable. Each time I returned to space I was confronted with a mass of thoughts, fantasies and memories of the idea of this person.

„sent but never received“ is a site-specific installation set in my small shared house room in Lisbon accumulates thoughts and unsent messages to a loved one as a materialisation of loss processing, process of analysis of relationships and love in my own context. Project framework is based on my intimate experience during this period, contemplates the relationship to this space of experience and transforms “the private”into “the public”.

The site-specific installation was open to the public.