THE BROKEN POEM

The Broken Poem is a video performance in which I reinterpret a phrase from Paul Éluard’s poem “Ausencia”. Using my body and a group of reclaimed chairs, I create sculptural typography, slowly forming fragments of the poem through three sequential actions.

The three phases of the performance are exhibited simultaneously in three separate rooms, linked by sound reverberation. Together, they represent the different stages of a storm: wind, tempest, and flood.

As physical remnants of the action, a wall remains fractured with the traces of the chairs thrown against it. On the floor, a circle marked with grooves in the soaked surface, surrounded by fragments and splinters of the broken chairs, symbolizes the epicenter and the reordering that follows the chaos — corresponding to the final phase (the flood) of the project Ghost Variations.

In this piece, I draw an analogy between the storm and the chaotic, structural nature of human thought and emotion. I see this emotional force as an unstable yet renewing energy within the cycles of life — like a breath that changes in intensity, constantly reconfiguring and abstracting the meaning of things through action.