Video (00:12:09), 2022, Braunschweig

Characters awaken within a story not entirely their own. Caught in a narrative shaped by inherited myths and historical distortion, they begin searching for a way out—not through escape, but through rewriting.

Drawing on the idea of reworlding, the work challenges how dominant stories—especially those rooted in patriarchal and colonial ideologies—frame our understanding of the past. Rather than reinforcing fixed roles or linear histories, Scrofa asks: What if we could reshape the narrative from within? Destiny isn’t written, but woven in real time.

Through hand-crafted costumes, ritual gestures, and dreamlike visuals, the figures in Scrofa enact small rebellions—reclaiming agency, reimagining origins, and forming new bonds outside the logic of control and hierarchy. The forest becomes a speculative space where transformation is possible, and where time folds rather than marches forward, acting at the threshold between safespace and
containment.

This is not a return to an imagined matriarchal utopia, but a push beyond binary oppositions altogether. Scrofa invites viewers to witness the beauty and difficulty of self-authorship—to consider how we might forge new realities when we stop accepting the ones we’re given.

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