Dione’s practice explores the porous and unstable realities of the feminine body — its ruptures, thresholds, and flesh. Positioned within the realms of the abject and the Other, the body remains central to their inquiry. Drawing upon historical references such as anatomical wax figures, they investigate how sculptural representations have shaped cultural perceptions of gender, desire, and decay.

Influenced by Julia Kristeva’s theory of abjection, Dione embraces a body without borders — one that leaks, disrupts, and unsettles. Within this space, horror and intimacy converge, where desire and fear coexist. Lucy Irigaray’s theory of the caress further informs their exploration, reframing touch as a relational and unknowable gesture, simultaneously tender and violent.

Dione introduces the concept of the abject-caress: a gesture that exists in the liminal space between comfort and discomfort, tenderness and disruption. Through this framework, their practice destabilises fixed identities and celebrates the grotesque, uncontainable power of the monstrous feminine.