I never wanted to leave, I had to… and as my body comes closer and closer to going back into the earth, I don’t know if my decay will ever be in the soil where I was born. In this life of insecurity and heartbreak, I embroider away now and for the years to come in a colorful hope that, either my country or I will metamorphose, and I will return and be at peace in the land of my ancestors.

Dante Buu Embroidery is intuitive. He randomly reaches out for an embroidery thread of any color (…) then starts embroidering according to his mood at the moment, until that thread ends − until it becomes a field of color, a form, a malleable feeling.

Dante Buu’s practice is of love, disobedience, intimacy and freedom, and how these are affected and altered through the past, present and the future. Using his body and its emotional and physical transformations as the main medium, Buu’s extensive durational performances take the form of sculptures, installations, drawings, photography, prose poetry and hand-embroidery. In Dante Buu’s works the bodily act of creation, as a form of continued action, breaks the artistic and societal norms such as: private vs. public, being good vs. being bad and breathing vs. suffocating.