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your wintercreature
text-based installation, 2026

In October 2025, I overwalked the city my family fled in the beginning of the Yugoslav wars. The walking became a form of doubling—with each step, I multiplied myself and left my multitudes across the city. This doubling was followed by an attempted erasure, and then by writing: first a letter addressed to the city, and subsequently a proliferation of letters and textual fragments.

In the process of writing, I found myself multiplied again through Korak, Janke(l), Ilay, myself, our Dwelling, and the many who talk through and beyond us. The many / the us interrupted and extended the initial address, speaking through, instead, and sometimes against me.

your wintercreature constructs a textual and material territory of displacement—a landscape composed of letters, fragments, memories, and voices that give form to a collective and dissonant “we”. The work combines writing with processes of fragmentation, erasure, rewriting, and recomposition, transforming personal memory, collaborative exchanges, and existing literary works into handwritten and printed elements arranged as a field of voices.

The resulting installation brings together voices—some named, some emergent, some barely legible—that move between different registers: movement and stillness, anger and anguish, measure and excess, language and its breakdown. Within this field, Korak, Janke(l), Ilay, myself, our Dwelling, and our many continue to speak: through, alongside, and against one another.

The work was exhibited at PART Vienna (2026).

The title your wintercreature is drawn from Paul Celan’s “Am weissen Gebetsriemen” (Atemwende, 1967).

Exhibition Photographs: Simos Batzakis