Reborn is a performance that counters what is happening in our world today—war, violence, displacement, and discrimination—by embodying the possibility of renewal.
There are many things in life we do not get to choose. We are born into histories, traumas, and identities that we must carry. Yet within this inevitability lies another truth: the possibility to be reborn. In this work, I carry myself in my own womb, a symbolic act of birthing myself anew—again and again—leaving behind pain and trauma while longing to emerge as the self I wish to become.
To be reborn is not only a spiritual act, but also a natural process, the same cycle through which life emerges. Yet it is also inseparable from the beginnings of emotional trauma, of war, of genocide, and of racial discrimination. At the same time, it holds space for happiness, peace, love, kindness, and unification.
The performance exists in this tension—between destruction and renewal, fragmentation and wholeness. It affirms that being reborn is not a singular event, but an ongoing healing process, a cycle through which we confront and transform both inherited and lived experiences.
Reborn is therefore both deeply personal and collective. It is an intimate ritual of carrying the past within the body, of mourning what has been lost, and of affirming life’s capacity to begin again. It is a gesture of resistance, of resilience, and of hope.
This is the cycle of everything.