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“Identity”, 2018

The female body is not a neutral terrain; it is a contested site, inscribed by power, history, and ideology across geographies and historical periods. It stands as a living political archive: a site of exploited labor, suppressed memory, commodified beauty, and regulated agency and desire. In migration, it bears the scars of colonialism, capitalism, patriarchy, and racism, yet persists as a force of creation, insubordination, and future-making, where multiple structures of exclusion and control collide, and identity is continuously reconstituted through the struggle for recognition and belonging. The series of posters reflects on identity as an evolving construct, neither fixed nor finished, rather a dialogue between memory and transformation, origin and becoming, drawn forward by the promise of futures not yet lived.

“I am here”, 2021-2023

I am here: The migrant artist’s journey in her quest for internationalisation involves a set of obstacles that can lead to invisibility, exclusion and oblivion. The problem reveals the enduring gender asymmetry but also the gaps in diversity that continue to define the art world. Women artists, and migrant women in particular, are often positioned at the margins, their work read through lenses of exoticism, tokenism, or simply ignored. The video performance I AM HERE is about claiming presence against the gravitational pull of invisibility and a insistence on being seen within a system still profoundly shaped by patriarchal structure and established networks of power.