This Is My Fortress, Where I Contain My Fears

2022, video installation, public intervention, HD video, split screen, monochrome, sound, 5’28”

Installation: Projection, recycled drawing paper, 150 x 266 cm, hanging in open exhibition space with sound installation; can be viewed from front or back

Filmed at the Hohensalzburg Fortress in Austria, during its public opening hours as a public intervention. Moving through the fortress—a structure originally built for military defense—I explore its historical weight and present-day vulnerability in relation to my own body.

Through repetitive movements and gestures, I engage in quiet acts of resistance and introspection, using physicality as a means to process fear, shame, and queerness in public space.

The video employs split-screen and mirrored compositions to fracture and multiply the image of the body, echoing the architecture’s own layered history and my shifting emotional states.

These visual strategies allow for simultaneity and tension: containment and exposure, strength and fragility. By navigating the fortress with deliberate slowness, I reclaim it not as a monument of power, but as a space for personal transformation.