Personal Statement 🎤

"With words, you can say anything. You can lie as long as the day, but you cannot lie in the recreation of an experience."

— Louise Bourgeois

 
 

My work is a journey, a road leading toward the unconscious land where dreams are a mystery, experiences are pages of a notebook, and existence is a surreal drama.

Being raised in a patriarchal culture, I have noticed—and witnessed—that a woman is caged within its boundaries, suffering and silencing her fears, choking her aspirations to survive. My creative response defines these circumstances through various creative and technological modalities. The reactive sentiments emerge as feminine bodies that have rationally and irrationally, physically and emotionally been the victims of abuse and trauma.

In one of the TED Talks (2010), Eve Ensler shares her perspective on being a female so accurately:

“Being a girl is so powerful that we have trained everyone not to be that.” 

My work responds to female objectification and depicts how male-dominancy affects the individuality of a woman. For me, a woman’s body is an emancipatory entity that is continually transforming emotionally and physically. The uncontrollable need to express results in a psychological and physiological metamorphosis, transfiguring the body in the process. Those struggling moments, as a result, generate a mutative response. I, therefore, capture those instances and depict them through my ecosophical creative praxis.

I dedicate my work to all the women who display strength even in the most defeated circumstances.