INSTALLATIONS

Otherness

2023

Wood studs, pillows, and eggshells

8.125 x 12 x 8 feet 

Installation Project Space 17 x 17 feet

I don't recognize these walls

I don't recognize the street sounds

I don't feel safe

I can't sleep

Otherness is a concept used to objectify the other. This installation demands a corporeal response through sensory perception. A Western-type house edification questions the meaning of migration, which requires flexibility, releasing, and reconstructing the identity fractured due to the displacement

Universal Moving

2023

Screen print on existing cardboard box

18 x 14 x 12 inches

I am exploring the ephemera of dwelling. Spaces play an essential role when the subject has to relocate and migrate to a different location, a readaptation process embedded in the moving.

I am investigating these adaptation processes, the tolls within the subject, the fragility and ambivalence of a cardboard container, the significance of the contents, and the ability of contention for the subject.

Living among 22 Boxes

Recycled moving boxes, silicon glue

8 x 9 x 8.5 feet

2022

Relocation, uprooting, and migration are processes we endure as humans. Although personal spaces provide a safe environment, we appropriate them with our things to feel safe and to adapt.

Using my moving boxes, I explore my process of adaptation. Once the boxes kept my belongings safe, the objects released their value to the present vessel, sheltering and nurturing me while adapting to the new space.

My friends...Stranded

Nylon strings, Cotton rope, wood,

and blue ink

8.5 x 8 x 4 feet

2022

A person's identity is assigned at birth with their first label, a name. Migration and globalization promoted the standardization of the alphabet in countries such as Pakistan, Korea, China, Japan, Iran, and India. 

This installation explores the flexibility of humans; the enclosed space serves as a refuge and flexibility of the self. Within the space -the known space-the home, the name became a memory, a trace 

The Bad Joke

Sugar-coated razor blades, Skin, Existing door, Rubbed ashes drawing

96 x 48 x 48 inches

2023

The United Nations General Assembly in Paris proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on 10 December 1948, translated into over 500 languages and signed by 193 countries. This unwelcome entry mat recalls the unwelcoming process migrants undergo during the migration system processing. 

The Weight of that Moment

Recycled wood, Insulation Foam, Rubber Paint, Wood, Rubber

4 x 8 x 5 feet

2024

As we continue to move forward in our semio-capitalist reality, we are faced with the weight of systems and power dynamics that come into play during stamping migration processes. The officer has the power and can let you in or out, leaving you waiting in anticipation for his decision. 

"UNTITLED”

Print paper, Archival ink

12 x 14 ft

2024

180 pages with the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights text and cited Art 13, 14, and 15 photocopied over and over until the text disappeared.  On the back is a list of 6,700 names and ages of people from Ghaza killed in the time elapsed from October 8-25, 2023. This is one of the worst violations of Human Rights. 

Source Aljazeera and Palestinian Ministry of Health, Nov 1, 2023

Many nations were and continue to be blind to these articles

Let's Talk about Languages

Sand, Blind Embossed on Arches Paper, Wood

14 x 16 x 14 ft   

2024

Languages are systems of communication developed by societies to communicate and establish relationships. New economies homogenized languages to be efficient and fulfill market needs.

The first name of a person in their native language is their identity and connection to their culture and heritage. Migrating from non-latinized languages means losing that identity and replacing it with a new one in the system