How it started

I started to make art with a paracosm (Kechenen) that me and my sister created. It was a well-elaborated world with characters and places beyond reality. This fantasy bubble offered us a safe place, filled with imagination, and a place to feel seen by a family. Because of this inner universe I felt like a whole child for a long time; this inner universe was the birth of my creativity today. After we stepped out of this bubble I learned how to translate feelings into images, textile, and sculptures. Even though these mediums were already in my life alongside the paracosm, still, it was after the paracosm that I started to make connections with my art.

Furthermore, stepping out of the paracosm helped me to engage in real matters of my society and the world. I began to confront what was already there, but I couldn’t see because of Kechenen. Matters of the society that have a direct influence on me as an artist: culture, racism, gender inequality, consent, motherhood and art, violence, police brutality, justice system, and masculine vulnerability.

Today, my practice is rooted in this intersection between imagination and lived experience. The experience that gives all these subjects an added value to me and my art. In my art I try to make connection with all these themes in a satirical aspect, making conversations about things we don’t want to talk about.