Artist Statement
Working with ceramics and porcelain as mediums of fragility, memory, and transformation, I engage subjects that are often spoken about in whispers or avoided altogether: the female body, childbirth, IVF, infertility, and the difficult process of accepting my own body and vulnerability. My practice is structured as a method of translation between three dimensions: the material, the digital, and the urban. Through the careful reworking of everyday, disposable vernacular forms in porcelain and ceramics, I suspend their ordinary utility and reframe them as carriers of dependence, care, and trace. This material shift is inseparable from my experience of displacement and an in-between condition shaped by migration and inner transition, in which stable points of reference are lost and continually reassembled. For me, the ceramic object is not an endpoint: through digital interpretation and algorithmic processes, it becomes an image that returns to the city as posters and street interventions, moving from an intimate studio gesture toward a public statement that mirrors the passage from personal experience into collective space.
Project 5=3
On the day that my second daughter was due to be born, I shared our story on my Facebook page. In the sixteenth week of pregnancy, circumstances beyond our control meant that we had to say goodbye to each other. It was the second miscarriage I had lost. The first one had ended at seven weeks.
The silence around pregnancy loss makes it even more difficult and painful. If women could see the statistics openly, if they heard about it from doctors, from people close to them who had been through it, the level of pain could be lowered. You could grieve and then find the strength to move forward. You could dream again without being afraid to try.
When my third child was born, it was my fifth pregnancy. This is how the idea for the 5=3 project came about.
I created the website 5equals3.org with my story and an invitation for women to share their own numbers. Since 2024, these numbers have become part of the project. I do not ask for details — only the numbers. Through them, I want to tell the stories of others. To make visible what is so often hidden. To show that you are not alone.
The idea of raising awareness of losing a pregnancy takes shape in the form of ceramic plaques bearing the number 5=3, which are being placed around the world. Thanks to caring friends, the plaques have already appeared in many cities: Paris, Vienna, Tel Aviv, Luxembourg, Havana, Tbilisi, Yerevan, London, Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro, Madrid, Amsterdam and Budapest.
Alongside central, crowded places, I also look for quiet corners in cities and provinces, so women have a place they can go to be physically alone while knowing many others have been in the same situation.
In 2026, the 5=3 project took on a new form: dominoes. I am bringing it to life through ceramics and street art.
At the same time, I created an artwork consisting of 24 pregnancy tests entitled What do you know about hope? — in support of those waiting for a longed-for pregnancy.
