ARTIST STATEMENT

I approach the body not as a fixed form, but as a site that shifts, absorbs, and reorganizes—continuously, in relation to everything around it.

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Having lived between cultures, I came to understand that borders rarely remain where they are drawn. They move inward—into the body, into the way one speaks, remembers, and takes up space.

 

For five years, I worked in refugee camps across multiple countries. What stayed with me was not the images, but watching people continue through conditions that offered no resolution. Change is rarely dramatic. It happens quietly, as people adapt to uncertainty, pressure, memory, and time.

That quiet persistence became the force behind my work—and a question I have never stopped asking: What does the body hold after everything it has passed through?

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That question gradually entered the paintings. Figures began to fracture, pulse, and dissolve into the landscapes around them. The body was no longer a subject standing against the world. It became continuous with it.

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As that boundary softens, the body begins to carry what surrounds it—borders, pressures, and the slow residue of lived conditions. These do not remain outside us. They take root within us, becoming tension, memory, and subtle shifts in how we inhabit space and time. My work traces that ongoing process—not the moment of crossing, but what remains after.

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My paintings do not seek resolution. They remain with what cannot yet be resolved, allowing experience to accumulate rather than conclude.

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The tension persists.