As stated by the Russian novelist, Leo Tolstoy, to speak to the universal, one must first speak from one’s own village. Just as this postulate, I remain convinced that, to address the global issues of our contemporary society, we need to listen to the small voices, the individual stories. And art has proven to be essential in challenging dominant narratives. Thus, I am interested in artistic practices and artefacts that create space for dialogue, reconciliation, connectivity and engagement.

I care about how exile and colonial oppression are inscribed in individual bodies and then transmitted into the subconscious of an entire population. Over time, this subconscious becomes a landscape that needs to be seen and heard. As an heir to a violent colonial history, I often got lost wandering around looking for familiar faces, for people who shared the same emotional patterns as me. This made me realise the traumas that have been passed on from generation to generation, even hushed, don’t disappear.

Drawing on both personal experience and archival research, I use different media such as performance, video and photography to provide engaged narratives. My practice stands against the injunction to invisibility, the erasure of colonised bodies, and patriarchal dynamics.