Artist Statement
My art practice investigates the body as a site of struggle and performance as a way to activate space. My artistic practice of video installation and photo-based work where I use myself as a subject is a way for me to exert my agency and create expansive spaces in opposition to the many closed and rigid systems that are imposed upon my body.
Women’s bodies are wrapped up in many layers of codes. My video and performance work is a medium through which I come to understand my own body and perform my gender as a struggle. I use performance as a way to assert my body and create new rituals for myself. I observe formal and aesthetic properties of my own cultural practices which I utilize and explore in my work. I create videos where I choreograph my own rituals and imagine new spaces of congregation.
In my art-making, I attempt to reclaim my own cultural practices and exert my agency in the cultural and public spaces I occupy. In performing and making the work, the moments of resistance and transformation are what inspire me. As codified as our cultures and spaces may be, the room to move within their structures does exist. In the realm of my videos, I want the viewer to experience a space of limitless possibility.