National Aquarium Artist-In-Residence

In 2023, as the National Aquarium’s Artist-in-Residence, I immersed myself—both literally and figuratively—into the depths of water’s transformative power. My project, Neutral Buoyancy, was an exploration of water as a modality of healing, an element that holds and moves us, a force that both supports and challenges the body. Through experimental video, live performance, and layered soundscapes, I invited audiences into an experience of submersion—both physical and emotional.

Throughout the residency, I created a series of experimental films that captured the sensations of being enveloped by water. Projected throughout the Aquarium, these videos became portals—visual meditations that echoed the rhythms of the sea, the weightlessness of floating, and the quiet surrender that water invites. Accompanied by sound components that blended ambient aquatic textures with human breath and movement, the installations became immersive, multi-sensory experiences that deepened the viewer’s connection to the element that sustains us all.

Beyond the screen, I brought this exploration into the physical realm. Performing for over 650 guests, I moved from the crest of Blacktip Reef through the winding paths of the National Aquarium, transforming the space into a living canvas. My performance practice is both ritual and ceremony, an embodied meditation where I become both artist and artwork. With each movement, I sculpted space, activating the environment as moving, breathing, living art.

Water is a teacher. It reminds us to release, to adapt, to find equilibrium between resistance and surrender. Neutral Buoyancy was not just about water as a subject—it was about water as a collaborator. In creating this work, I did not simply depict submersion; I sought to feel it, to become it, to invite others into its depths.

As an artist, I am always searching for ways to dissolve the barriers between art and audience, between movement and meaning, between self and environment. In Neutral Buoyancy, I found a fluid, ever-shifting space where those boundaries disappeared—a space where we could all, for a moment, simply float.