My conceptual and interdisciplinary art works are concerned with the themes of walking (movement) and talking (communication). These two forms of narration have been guiding me for the past few years. They relate to the formation of individual and societal “self”. My sculptures, videos, drawings and performance artworks problematize the formation of the “self” that has been always already inscribed within a context of family, community, and nation. The dichotomy of personal vs. social, individual vs. collective, and aesthetic vs. everyday is important to me. While constantly moving in and out of different socio-political, geographical and cultural frames, I examine an itinerant “self”, my becoming identity. I often posit rhetorical questions such as, who are we? and why are we where we are?
The phenomenon of walking and talking in-between diverse cultures, countries and languages became a condition sine qua non of my artistic practice. I often question my belonging to one group or another I encounter during my journeys. The driving force behind my artworks lies in an impossible desire to create an empowered and authentic “self” that would displace the prosthetic origins or our culturally and politically conditioned “identities”.
My art making process constantly opens up new areas of indeterminacy that speak not only about aesthetics and beauty, but also about power relations. This unpresentable longing to exhaust human creative desire to go beyond a given status quo, places me in the middle of a hybrid space and forces me to translate it into visual artworks. My compulsive quest to find beauty in uneasy situations directs me towards the fragility of glass, iron, copper, and wood materials and towards video, sound and performance art forms. The formal and conceptual qualities of my artworks want to challenge a socio-cultural space where the meaning is circular and it seems to collapse.