Research
My intertwined practices are overarched by an on-going intersectional research and interest in gender, sexualities and cultures. As a cultural producer, curator and birth-worker I create actions and models towards equal representation and better recognition of care work, mothers and parents. As an artist I create images and performances that aim to instigate debate and new narratives around these subjects.
Production
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Starting by overcoming the rejections and misrepresentation of people’s professional abilities during pregnancy and beyond, I have built, a solid track record of platforms, engaging individuals and institutions in this conversation. I have created an ever-growing network of artists and supporters, demonstrating the need for new approaches and infrastructures both for artists and the cultural industries.
I have been and keep wanting to provide new references for models that can inspire a sea-change across sectors; integrate ways we perceive and balance the private, the domestic and the public, as well as the perception and normalization of mothers and primary care givers artistic output as part of the cultural and social landscape.
I have been and keep wanting to provide new references for models that can inspire a sea-change across sectors; integrate ways we perceive and balance the private, the domestic and the public, as well as the perception and normalization of mothers and primary care givers artistic output as part of the cultural and social landscape.
Art
In this framework, I have been developing my practice exploring sexualities and genealogies, decentralised networks of knowledge sharing and collective memories, politics of migration and class. I use 'tights' as material to reconnect and tell stories of women and people from a working-class and disadvantaged socioeconomic background, creating actions, images and installations at the intersection between sacred ritual and rebellion. The work manifests in writing, live actions, movement, photography, sculptural installation and videos.
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