yasmin flores & chieko

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

Performance artist Yasmim Flores invites immigrant women to take part in a collective creative process which brings together women who shared Portuguese as their mother tongue and unfolds around themes of migration, colonization, and displacement, engaging processes of ego deconstruction, reinvention, creativity, and transformation. The work navigates experiences of crossing and limitation, of light and shadow, creating space for insight and reflection.

In the performance presented at the Women House exhibition, Flores shares a gesture with Chieko and her cello. Together, they carefully carry a paper sculpture to the site of the performance—an action that emphasizes collective effort, attentiveness, and interdependence. Through the act of looking at one another, each woman encounters the other as a mirror of herself.

Grounded in sorority and sisterhood, the project draws upon women’s instinctive knowledge as it explores cycles, rituals, and the passage of time. It activates bodily memory and ancestral presence, affirming resilience as a force of transformation, while Chieko’s music unfolds and Flores gives voice to the narratives written on the sculpture paper.