About.
I am a visual artist, conceiving and manifesting a cross-disciplinary body of work, that I have been developing and evolving, since my BA and MA graduations. My current practice combines spoken word, live art, and installation, still and moving images, sound and scent, which have been incorporated and synthetically established for a multimedia presentation.
My work is placed at the junctions of visual art and performance and deals with the ongoing theme of (sexual) identity, love, the politics of the female gaze, the aesthetics of beauty, obsession and transformation, nature and evolution, space and spectator.
Currently, a research candidate (CREAM/ UoW), my research project combines experimental creative practice, autoethnography, artist interviews and critical analysis. It draws from my own life experiences, as a lesbian/ dyke woman, in and out of clubs and underground spaces, as well as my artistic practice; multidisciplinary performances, soundscapes, still images, spoken words and speculative meditations. I am an obsessively obsessed, obsessing documentarian, the archive features heavily in my practice and queer life. It is personal as well as political to preserve the past, apply it to the present and refer it to the future. I especially focus on the closed-down, defunct, demolished and repurposed art/ club/ DIY/ social spaces and all the stories and events that took place there from the mid-1980s till the mid-2000s. The geopolitical impacts of brutal capitalist systems (gentrification) have affected the LGBTIQA community at large and especially erasing the dyke social and dyke life (from First Out to the Market Tavern).
I live and work in London, a city that has become the protagonist of my work, a city of great socio-political-queer importance and of my own awakening.
Physical movement and sensorial embodiment, the role of the body, music, darkrooms, sex and BDSM practices, nostalgia and forgotten spaces are few of the elements I am interested in, which establish my creative practice, answer my ongoing questions, communicate my words, ideas and messages. Visibility and representation against misogyny, dykephobia, marginalisation and erasure.