how i survived my 40-year-old thing

Solo Exhibition @48Stunden Neukolln

ReSource, June 2022

At the age of 39, I left behind everything I knew ; my country, my family, my friends, and the version of myself I had spent a lifetime constructing and moved to Germany. The transition shattered the structures that had defined my identity. What followed was a long, disorienting period of silence, idleness, and mental struggle.

How I Survived My 40-Year-Old Thing was born from that collapse. It became my first attempt to turn pain into process to face my own confrontational moment and to heal through creation. The graphic novel captures the raw, fragmented experience of losing and reassembling the self, oscillating between humor, despair, and fragile clarity.

The project’s aim is simple yet profound: to inspire others to engage with their own madness honestly to touch it, name it, and, through that encounter, begin to heal.