Sets/Sites
New York City, 2025
In Misconstruction Site, I flirt with enclosure by converting a small room into a surreal cityscape. Using common papers in a structural fashion, I set up a liminal architecture only to carve into the whiteness with charcoal, demanding more space from the space. A soundscape made from blended field recordings and a non-verbal performance further activate the landscape.
My expectations for the audience vary according to the occasion: at times, they are involuntary paintbrushes, inevitably marking the space with their footsteps. Other times they become accidental actors, tripping over the design of the set. What stays the same is the will to blur subjectivity and norm, as the objects of an ever-shifting game of defeated expectations.
New York City, 2025
This ongoing body of work focuses on the edification of immersive and ephemeral sets/environments. Fragility and precarious truths are expressed via protruding portal-like metal armatures, puncturing the space.
The symbol of the firearm vaguely prevails over the scene-- castrated rifles await activation, queered shots are fired inconclusively.
This conniving practice negotiates the affect of violence. My poetic stance, written as an Epistemology of Irrelevance AKA the Pursuit of Misconstruction, aids me in probing the linguistic and symbolic imaginaries designed by fascist power structures.
New York City, 2025
1 installation; 3 activations.
In Self-Identifications, I explore the theme of digital identities and the echo-chamber of art school in a room a la Colette–using fabric, finely crafted soft sculptures, photographic transfer collages, floating screens with video projections, and live performance.
One iteration of this site (Stage II) included a floating screen, sliced to the proportions of my computer, on which I projected the video performance (last slide) grappling with self identification in systems of surveillance.
New York City, 2025
The installation features three hand crafted mdf panels reminiscent of old school theatre set designs and a series of charcoal drawings on crumpled papers of different weights and transparencies.
Exploring themes of grief and despair, a brutal wasteland is promptly interrupted by hidden large scale drawings and occasional video projections reminiscing (or proposing) a pulse of life in an otherwise desolate climate.
Text is rendered illegible by texture and displaced language and public interaction is promoted by a dual reading of the pieces in the space.
Themes of migration, fractured lineages and political uncertainty are expressed via the overlapping of drawings made on crumpled tracing paper, a pictorial use of lighting and a spatial design that places the viewer in the ambiguous role of both actor and audience.
New York City, 2024
An exploration on friencdship expressed through the concept of Portal Theory.