Artist Statement

My practice explores the emotional, psychological, and spatial conditions of transnational movement. Through video, sculpture, installation, and performance, I examine how legal, cultural, and perceptual systems reshape the relationship between individuals and space, and how they influence the internal structures of memory, identity, and time. Drawing from the lived experiences of transnational workers, I investigate how individuals constantly negotiate between institutional frameworks. In my performance piece Waiting is a Frenzy, I fly a kite over the ocean and into the sky, using the tension of wind and current as a way to physically sense the invisible forces acting on the body. The work captures a state of suspension—when belonging is not yet defined and anticipation, fear, and uncertainty converge, causing identity to drift.

Time has become a crucial entry point in my recent work. I question the way contemporary society defines time as a tool for productivity and goal-oriented progress—a linear, managed resource that flattens our experience of the present. I ask: If time no longer points toward the future, how else might we live it? Inspired by the Tarot card “The Fool”—a figure of spiritual freedom and intuitive movement—I explore fragmented, cyclical, and nonlinear experiences of time. In my recent piece Fool’s Hour, I deconstruct the logic of the clock and replace it with amusement park structures such as a Ferris wheel and roller coaster—looping endlessly without hands or numbers. In doing so, I reimagine time as un-owned and unmeasured, not a resource to be spent but an experience to inhabit. As stated in the work: “Time is not lost, it is freed.”