own chronological reality through my investigative journey. It is how I perceive Celtic people about various artistic possibilities by expressing my reality and history. The most important topics related to this culture's social-cultural, spiritual-rituals, and mythological sides. Post-humanist components will be presented and linked with animal parts such as horns, a horse skull, animal blood, and a wild horsetail. As a totem animal of the Celts, the horse is majestic and represents freedom, power, independence, courage, and good fortune. I feel profoundly connected with my Celtic ancestors and specially identified with Celtic women and their experiences, inspiring me, and transforming me as a human being and an artist. Therefore, the intention here is to highlight my roots and establish a parallelism between the concept of empowerment of women in Celtic society and our contemporary society.
Through two chapters, I transform into a wild ‘Celtic Warrior’ and a mythological character, ‘Epona-Rhiannon-Macha: Celtic Horse Goddesses’.
The conceptual idea of the research project is to explore the uncanny and epic meaning of Celtic warrior women through body performances and visual arts. Women did not appear to be ostracised in this Celtic mythical society; on the other hand, women were warriors, initiators, leaders, goddesses, and equal to men.
I always felt like a warrior and very connected to wild animals. Therefore, Elements like blood, wild catch horsetail, and horse skull are symbols to recreate the symbiosis between a human and animal; I wanted to show the struggle of human and animal souls for survival in this artwork.
There is a constant ‘belief’ throughout this artwork that life is a force of universal energy, and universal freedom is also projected by the representation of wild animals in this region, symbolising death, rebirth, and reincarnation. I play with a dual meaning of born (identity) and migration.
I have experienced these performances as a form of purification through rituals and as my interaction with the ‘ancient’; the healing of the body and the soul.