MAYTE VAOS
Performative Artist
The Healing Machine
The Kintsugi Body
The Healing Machine is a performance combining aerial dance, soundscapes, and visual arts. Inspired by artifacts and the kinetic mobiles of Alexander Calder, it explores the idea of hyper-perception.
Fragments of the past shape the present and expand our sense of the future. The work invites the audience to reflect on how perception, often filtered by experience and beliefs, influences our relationships, choices, and understanding of others, opening the possibility of a more flexible and healing awareness.
Inspired by the Japanese art of Kintsugi, this project explores the beauty of transformation through fragility, rupture, and repair. Just as broken ceramics are mended with gold, the work reflects on how personal and collective wounds can become part of a new form of strength and meaning.
Through movement, performance, and visual elements, the Kintsugi Project invites audiences to contemplate vulnerability, resilience, and the creative potential that emerges when we embrace imperfection. Fractures are not hidden. They become the lines that tell the story.