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DID I?

Danata Shaikenova is an alumna of AMD Berlin. Her work touches on topics such as body image, trauma, and healing through art. She enjoys using upcycling techniques to reconstruct garments, transforming her personal experiences into conceptual designs. Danata focuses on the inner self to create outward expressions.

The performance ‘DID I?’ is an emotional journey through the fragmented landscape of the personal experiences of Danata Shaikenova. The dissociative tension between form and feeling is being explored whilst tracing the elusive boundaries of the self. The body, once familiar, shifts under the weight of trauma, becoming fragmented, inaccessible. Yet, beyond the objective, the subjective is being sought in the fluid contours where consciousness blurs with flesh. Here, boundaries dissolve, reshaping themselves through perception, unraveling the comfort that lies not in the body’s limits, but in the fragile dance of ego and identity, always shifting, never fixed.