Axenia Raulet
Exploring Raw Identity through Visuals, Sound and Movement
"We are made of layers, cells, constellations."
Anaïs Nin
I am drawn to the intricate depths of identity—the raw, unfiltered layers hidden beneath the masks we wear daily. Through visuals, sound, and movement, I peel back the superficial to reveal the vulnerable, authentic core of what it means to be human.
My work is unapologetically raw: it embraces the visceral and imperfect, cradling chaos until it refines into something tender yet fierce. Transparent, wry layers—unexpected and disarmingly human—lighten the intensity without softening its truth.
Inspired by butoh’s haunting expressiveness and profound physicality, I weave in slow, deliberate movement that invites viewers to linger in discomfort and sudden revelation. At the heart is intimate storytelling: whispered confessions, fragmented narratives, quiet gestures that draw the audience into a shared solitude—a space of recognition amid isolation.
In this interplay, my work becomes a cracked mirror, never polished, reflecting our multifaceted, contradictory selves once the performance of identity falls away.
We are forever alone together - woven into the same fierce, living web.
Recent projects
Solo Exhibitions
Engines + Beasts V, November 2025, Project 83, Newquay
Engines + Beasts IV, September 2025, The Chintz, Falmouth
Engines + Beasts III, July – September 2024, Grain Barge, Bristol
Engines + Beasts II, March-May 2024, Tobacco Factory, Bristol
Engines + Beasts, September 2023, Dareshack, Bristol
The 1920 Collection, 4-17th April 2022,
Cass Art, Bristol
Poster, Musicart and Bookcovers
Poster for Other Minds Festival, September 2024, Watershed
Cover Art for Delinquescent Beings, A Neuroqueering Book of Love, May 2024
Voice and Cover art for Atelophobia by Ghost Seminar
Cover Art for Lordvessel by Lawi Anywar
Publications
Hyperfocushorror, Winter and Spring Issue 2026
2025 Pecha Kucha Talk - Fragmented Identity, Bristol, UK
2025 Pervasive Media Studio, Tame in Chaos, Bristol, UK
2020 - PRSC, We are all threads of the same yarn, Bristol, UK
2009 - 2016 Radio Producer for Cobra à pois, Radiogas + Radiosonar, Italy
Recent
awards
2025 Spiral Collective, Falmouth, UK
2022 -2024 -Wake the Tiger, Bristol, UK
2023 The Wall, Tobacco Factory, Bristol, UK
2020 The lost Cabaret, Paris, France
2019 -- Brave New World, Amblin Television, Wales
2017- 2018 Eden Project, Cornwall, UK
2012-2014 Lysistrata, Theatron Company, Rome, Italy
2024 Butoh training with Ima Tenko, Kyoto, Japan
2023 - Butoh training with Mitsuyo Uesugi, London, UK
2023 Trisha Brown School
New York, USA
2020 - - Clown Training with
Holly Stoppit, Robyn Hambrook,
Igne Berkauskaite, Bristol, UK
2019 -- The Curious School of Puppetry, Bristol, UK
2019 Circus Training with Swamp Circus Trust, Falmouth, UK
2019 LISPA Intensive: Clowning and Comical Worlds, Berli, Germany
2015–2016 Physical Theater with Teatro dei Gatti, Bologna, Italy
Death Meditation
Slow movement is slow space—
a rebellion against the relentless machine,
rejecting disconnection,
reviving our senses.
As we move slowly,
breath and motion unite,
thoughtful responses replace reactivity.
Just a moment of stillness is a chance to reboot...
Sound experiments
