DESIRE REIGNS

Desire Reigns is a four-part body of work that unfolds as a

constellation of narrative, sound, movement, and installation.

Rooted in lived experience, it traces the undercurrents of addiction,

intimacy, and survival in a world where desire is both commodity

and escape route. Spanning a nouvelle (I), a music EP (II), a live

performance (III), and a performative installation (IV), The project

shape-shifts across mediums to interrogate its themes from every

angle: the novella unfolds as a philosophical, political, and

psychological inquiry; the music pulses at its emotional core; the

live performance stages a direct encounter with the audience; and

the installation-performance functions not as a finale but as an

ongoing experiment—or hypothesis—in action.

At its core, Desire Reigns interrogates what it means to perform

care, to sell closeness, to long for something real inside

hypersexualized and desensitized spaces. It draws from the artist’s

own history as a sex worker and caregiver for disable people,

weaving personal memory with philosophical critique. The work

refuses catharsis. Instead, it dwells in contradiction—where

pleasure hurts, love performs, and the body becomes both

battlefield and altar.