Yoanna Walden (b. 2003) creates photographic works in which elusive dreams, fragmented memories, and ambiguous inner visions intersect. Through the use of found objects, improvised props, and her own body as both subject and medium, she constructs staged tableaux that evoke narratives of confinement, constraint, and isolation. Rooted in personal experience and shaped by a self-directed, autodidactic approach, her practice interrogates systems of control and the social constructs surrounding mental wellness and madness. Having left formal education at the age of fifteen, her creative process is governed not by academic conventions but by instinct and experimentation. While she approaches each project with a deep sense of rigour, she privileges intuition over rule, allowing the work to unfold through an organic process. The vivid and surreal worlds she builds are in dialogue with complex philosophical and socio-political concerns, informed by the work of thinkers and artists such as Foucault and Antonin Artaud. Through this dialogue, the artist aims to develop a visual language that not only critiques normative frameworks but also offers an embodied, affective encounter with the themes at the heart of her work..