Artist Statement

As a premise, I search for historical artifacts that mark territories and population movements. Whether architectural, linguistic (proverbs, mottos, alphabets) or related to myth, these markers, condition our rapport with others. It is only through their unravelling and reinterpretation by individual memories that they reveal their potential for transformation. These are fundamental to the issues that interest me: questions around marginalized populations, the resilience of indigenous peoples and [re]readings of history.

I use artifacts to deconstruct, disfigure and reveal their origins. The monument-sepulchre, the public domain, the heraldic and the proverb become the playground where it is possible to delineate history and its hidden branches, to foresee its exposed roots. My desire is to [un]tangle these ties to find traces of resilience, resistance, and creativity. From foundry to lost-wax or fiber - in costume or photosensitive material - touch is essential to symbolize the presence of the body through the transformation of materials. The process embodies questions of passing on knowledge, heritage, and memory.