People flee their home country for a variety of reasons; such as employment opportunities, escaping violent conflicts, seeking shelter from political and religious persecution, reuniting with loved ones…
In the collective imagination, “immigration” suggests the idea of a group or even an invading hoard. I want to focus on immigrants as the individuals they are, highlight the prices they paid to get here, their aspirations, who and what they left behind and the challenges they face in attempting to adapt to a foreign land. Most often is the case, immigrants are facing the dual impossibilities of not being able to return to their home country while at the same time assimilating into the alien culture of their new home.
My current body of work addresses the “third space”, the in between the two places each immigrant belongs to. It aims to demonstrate the discomfort related to their impossible quest for peace and stability while facing what I like to call, “an exile”. I started this exploration from my own experience as an immigrant after arriving in the United States in 2018.
I am following a multidisciplinary approach as I started the artistic journey as a painter and evolved to installation work that combines painting and transformed objects. My pieces translate instability by having recourse to dichotomy between gestures,objects, materials and spaces.