Exorcize Me is a photography, videography and live performance project addressing coming-of-age anxiety, teenage alienation and the confusing phrase between childhood & adulthood. The title, Exorcize Me speaks about the unease within one’s own skin and the yearning to get rid of new-fangled fears and unfamiliar emotions.

The project entail a class of schoolgirls in their school uniforms with skull makeup painted on their faces. These schoolgirls pose in the tradition of Balthus’ paintings of girls—Balthus’ girls appear as languid, coquettish & self-absorbed figures that are immersed inside their interior worlds within a familiar setting. Exorcize Me schoolgirls dawdle in school gym & classrooms in similar languid, coquettish & self- absorbed manner.

The goth makeup, baby language, school setting and uniforms are juxtapositions of reality and fiction, interior work brought out to the exterior. Exorcize Me also speaks about existential anxiety, which began in adolescence and persists through adulthood.