yasmin flores & chieko

“Resilience & transformation: Voices of expatriate women”, 2025

Performance

Performance artist Yasmim Flores often invites immigrant women to engage in a collective creative process grounded in a shared Portuguese mother tongue. Engaging with migration, colonisation, and displacement, the work unfolds through acts of ego deconstruction, imaginative reinvention, and transformative creativity. Emerging from these encounters, the project invites participants and viewers alike to inhabit a space of reflection and awakening.

In the performance presented at the Women House exhibition, Flores activates this material in collaboration with cellist Chieko. Together, they carry and position a paper sculpture inscribed with fragments of lived narratives, an action that foregrounds care, attentiveness, and interdependence. As the performance unfolds, Flores gives voice to these texts while Chieko’s live cello weaves a sonic landscape around them.

Grounded in sorority and sisterhood, the work draws on embodied knowledge to explore cycles, rituals, and the passage of time. It activates memory as both personal and ancestral, affirming resilience as a transformative force.