SQEYS is a contemporary troubadour. Embracing narration is the core of its artistic practice. Each project arises from a simple yet radical question, unfolding tale after tale into a complex and multifaceted creation — its juice spans between video, painting, photography, installation, and never-made sofuvis. Its coherence lies not in repetition but in the thirst for storytelling: allowing a narrative to surface, be written and chased without restraint.
“What is courage?” “What is true friendship?” “What does it mean to have faith in oneself?” “What does it mean to fight evil?” “What is forgiveness?” “What is it to live without regret?”.
These are questions that have accompanied us for centuries, carried by the fables and immortal characters of every civilization. From China’s Journey to the West, with its odyssey of trials, mischief, and transformation, to Japan’s Tale of the Heike, to the troubadours of medieval Europe and the Grimm corpus studied by Bettelheim, SQEYS follows this long lineage. The aim is not to recount but to bring the audience inside the fable itself, to let it act as a metaphysical compass for our contemporaneity.
To make this possible, SQEYS has set aside the personal name, choosing to act as a Waldgänger — one who walks apart from the crowd — so that fables may remain alive as an art practice, able to move within society without the constraints of identity.
SQEYS’ practice forms an interconnected universe of fables and characters that reflect the latter stages of our society’s psychic disintegration. A fable, within the framework of game theory, can be described as an engaging crescendo with a beginning and an end. Even if the fictional characters acting within it are finite, a truth reaches the observers in their own dimension to let it become infinite. For SQEYS, the very act of creating and projecting a fictional tale — whether as narrative, image, sound or lullaby — is the incantation of the very quest becoming incarnation into life, reaching the audience, one fable after another.
Although each project may at first appear childlike, every fable speaks of experiences that transcend that state. This is SQEYS’ practice: an invitation to become an active character in our own narrative, to extend the fable beyond a finite perimeter and into lived reality, so that the world can be seen anew — through the eyes of the tale itself.