STATEMENTS

My work is born out of exile. Like so many displaced people, I have carried the weight of departures imposed by the fractures of the world. From this experience emerges a practice that questions the invisible layers of History, its silences and its shadows.

I conceive my work as a meeting ground between history, memory, and the imagination (myths). I bring into dialogue figures: militants, singers, artists, thinkers, popular icons as well as anonymous voices, the marginalized and the uprooted that History has kept at its margins. Through installations, painting, photography, video, and digital art, I seek to build bridges between the visible and the invisible, between erased narratives and contemporary imaginaries.

Borders, a long-term project, is a traveling archive that gathers these relegated voices. Each work is an attempt at desedimentation: undoing the layers of sedimented narratives, exposing the mythologies inherited from the colonial gaze, and relearning History otherwise, in a plural form.

My relation to travel is not that of romantic exploration of the distant, but of the imposed condition of exile. Where literature revealed to me explorers fascinated by the colonial elsewhere, I chose to oppose the voices of the displaced. My work transforms the wound of exile into an exploratory act, both poetic and critical, denouncing inherited mythologies while inventing new ways of seeing and telling.

In my work I want the viewer to experience a form of wandering, not to get lost, but to encounter their own silences, their roots, their belonging. I aspire for my works to appear like flashes of light within the interstices of History: fragile, daring, and carriers of truth.