ESCAPISM unfolds as a performative installation exploring the tension between constraint and escape.

Built from a structure of acrylic, metal, and elastic elements, the installation becomes both instrument and scenographic environment. Fitted with contact microphones, the structure becomes playable: Gabriela Hébert performs live, pulling against and moving through its elastic and metal components to trigger both the composition and fragments of her own recorded voice in real time.

Through the interaction between sound, shadow, and movement, the work reflects on inner confrontation, the fragile balance between tension, release, and the impulse to break free. Each attempt to escape introduces moments of disruption, where body and sound fracture, revealing what calm was holding back.