About
My practice is focused on navigating the in-between, the un-belonging, the unsettling third space and cultural hybridity.
Very often and for many reasons, immigrants face the paradox of an impossible return to their home country as well as an impossible adaptation to the new culture. My work addresses that liminal space and explores the precarious space in-between cultures and cultural hybridity. From this perspective, I examine nostalgia, ideas of home, alienation, memory filtration, creolization, and post-colonial spaces.
My work follows a multidisciplinary approach working often with materials that evoke the secular traditions and rituals of my cultural heritage.
Through a diasporan narrative, I aim to convey the richness and complexity of hybrid cultures as well as the cultural shifts and adaptations that result from immigration. Through weaving elements of my original home into my new cultural context, I wish to unravel the layers of multilayered identities and ultimately, demonstrate the link between personal narratives and larger social structures.
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Education
2022 - MFA in studio arts, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore USA
2002 - Masters degree in Communications, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris France
2001- Bachelor’s degree in Communications, Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris France
Group and Solo Exhibitions
2023-Green Space, group show, Fischman Gallery, Johnson City, TN
2023-Frequent Goodbyes, H Space, Washington DC. in partnership with Hamiltonian Artists
2022- Thesis exhibition, MICA Lazarus Center, Baltimore
2021- Personal venue, solo exhibition, Baltimore
2021- Stroke Gallery, virtual group exhibition
2020- Despite the distance, online iteration in lieu of MICA- MFAST 2nd and 3rd years public exhibition
2019- Left Space pop-up exhibition, Baltimore, MD
2019- Prince George’s African American Museum & Cultural Center, North Brentwood, MD with artist Nikki Brooks,
Artist talks
2019- Artist talk with artist Nikki Brooks, Prince George’s African American Museum & Cultural Center, North Brentwood, MD
Residencies
School 33 - Baltimore