In the video performance, the artist surrenders his body to the Gobi Desert, in Mongolia, in a ritualistic action that pushes the boundaries between the visible and the invisible, the conscious and the unconscious. Upon finding a golden branch fallen among stones and flowers—a symbol of the “Golden Trees” (Altan Hargana), sacred plants that protect local families—the artist chooses this space as an altar for his performative act. There, he digs a hole, uses a golden powder, possibly related to the plants, to cover parts of his body and lies down in a fetal position, surrounded by rocks, as if attempting to take root in the arid landscape. The action evokes a state of suspension, where the body becomes an extension of the earth and a channel for ancestral forces. The performance, carried out during the 2nd Mongolia Land Art Biennial, manifests a poetics of vulnerability and transcendence, in which the desert, silent and vast, acts as a mirror of human interiority.
