In 'The Sea by Night,' I, along with team Sexyland, attempt to recreate the shimmering of the moon on the sea in a one-off performance featuring twenty-two residents of the island of Cyprus. The end result is a 19-minute film that plays in a loop. Special music was created for the video piece. The film was shot, edited, and then presented at the opening of the Larnaca Biennale in Cyprus, where it was exhibited for eight weeks.

Cyprus; the island is inextricably linked to the sea, which has played a crucial role in shaping the island's history, economy, and culture, leading to trade, geopolitical significance, and cultural exchanges. Cyprus, partly Greek and partly Turkish, receives the highest number of asylum applications in the entire European Union. Many of them have stayed in Cyprus, increasing the diversity of the island's population. For the recorded performance 'The Sea by Night,' I wanted to capture and poetically portray this diversity.

Sometimes you have an idea like this; imitating the shimmering of the moon on the sea with people. And then you sort out all the conditions, but the human element is loose; you cannot anticipate it, it’s an uncertainty. Just like life: everything is arranged, we come, but no one knows anything about it.

This way of working brings me a lot of gratitude. Every time I stand behind the camera feeling abandoned. It feels like a competition, one-time, and then you have won or lost, but either way, it's over and we have done something.

We arrived in Cyprus on Monday with Sexyland. We found a location, bought a vacuum cleaner, befriended the landlord, paparazzi, the yoga lady around the corner, the bartenders, we cut glitter curtains, made a soundtrack, but most importantly: every conversation with a Cypriot sooner or later turned to the question of whether they might want to be a wave in the sea on Friday. That ultimately 22 strangers, with bare sweaty feet, in 35-degree heat and raincoats, lay there together and became one - without clear instructions - truly gives me hope. No one cared about backgrounds, beliefs, age, gender, anything. No one was in a hurry or annoyed, and the question of why we were doing this in the first place seemed completely irrelevant. We were on the same team and were euphoric afterwards. It was brilliant. And then editing, exporting, installing; the next day, opening of the Larnaca Biennale!