Self-portraits made in silence, as a way to endure and re-form.

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Rebirth is a series of self-portraits made alone, in silence, during the COVID-19 lockdowns.

Created in a period of isolation and uncertainty, the work grew out of a need to keep moving while everything else stood still. These images are not responses to the pandemic itself, but to the inner conditions it enforced: solitude, repetition and the absence of witnesses.

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Working without an audience, the artist uses her own body as both subject and site. The process is slow and often stripped down. Make-up and body paint are applied not to decorate or transform for others, but to mark shifts, fractures and moments of reorientation. What emerges is not a fixed identity, but a body in transition, negotiating presence in a time of withdrawal.

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Silence plays a central role in this series. It removes performance and expectation, allowing gestures to remain unresolved and imperfect. The camera records states rather than characters. Each image holds tension between vulnerability and control, between care and disintegration. Rebirth, here, is not presented as a clean or celebratory act, but as something gradual, uneasy and deeply physical.

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This body of work acknowledges that transformation often happens when structure collapses. Alone and cut off from external validation, the act of making became a form of survival. Rebirth speaks to moments when identity loosens, when nothing is certain, and when creation becomes a way to stay present inside instability.