Book of my lives

Dance and theatre performance

The expat experience of the American-Bosnian writer Aleksandar Hemon, which he describes in his autobiographical essays collected in the book The Book of My Lives, may have a happy ending, but that doesn’t say much about it.

For a stage adaptation, I created a video work set within a rotatable cube scenography—an ever-shifting structure that plays with perspective, constantly turning itself (and the viewer’s perception) upside down. This cube becomes both a physical and metaphorical space where the boundaries between interiors and exteriors blur and collapse.

The piece draws on the expat experience of  Aleksandar Hemon. His fragmented recollections of identity, displacement, and memory informed my approach, where the cube serves as a vessel for both personal and collective histories. I layered video, architectural illusion, and scenographic shifts to evoke the unstable ground of migration—where homes are lost, found, and reimagined.

By integrating national memory, personal narrative, and historical rupture, the work attempts to visualize the experience of dislocation—not just as a geographic transition, but as a psychological and emotional state of flux.