Institution
TU Dublin
Medium
Installation
Graduation Year
Class of 2025
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“March of the Star-Spangled Banner Volunteers” is the title of my exhibition.My practice explores the reformation and floating status of identity shaped by migration, cultural displacement, and bureaucratic structures. I create multidisciplinary works using performance, videos, installation, and found objects to explore the fragile and shifting nature of identity. My practice often involves ephemeral materials like ice, wax, and carbon paper, that carry traces of transformation and disappearance to materialize the tension between belonging and displacement. Inspired by my own experience navigating multiple cultural and political identities, this series invites viewers to participate in acts of witnessing, guessing, or inserting themselves into these ephemeral systems. Through acts like scrolling a suitcase, burning matches, melting borders, or collecting strands of hair, I translate my personal migration journey into tactile rituals and poetic gestures of resistance against rigid national and cultural categorizations. Rooted in the intersectionality theory developed by Kimberlé Crenshaw in the late 1980s, informed by writers like Fernando Pessoa and poets like Adonis, my work reflects identity as something fluid and unfixed. Although like a garden of solitude constantly reshaped by movement, this space nurtures growth, creativity, and identity reformation to express a self that is always becoming. I question static definitions of self, belonging, and national borders, and invite viewers to participate in this space. This is important because in an increasingly divided yet globalized world, identity is both politicized and personal. My work offers a space to reflect, to hold contradiction, and to reimagine how we belong and who decides what that means.
