I am a London-based artist working with film and photography centred around women. From an early age, I had a sensitivity towards the turbulent political atmosphere and how the systems we live in affect us.I felt deeply towards the dystopian fiction of Brave New World, Dawn, Parable of the Sower, and 1984 drawing parallels with our world. When things got too depressing, I found an escape in surreal cinema and black and white photography.
Political rage combined with a visual obsession, I wondered if creating a new world of my own would be possible, and I picked up experimental cinema. In my films, women are performing fictional rituals of listening to seashells, making wings, being invisible, and dreaming in acrylic nails. In my film Milk, archived by the British Film Institute), women are pouring milk down a slit in the ground in post-future time.
I print my photographs from a darkroom in East London, butn when I am shooting, I am usually somewhere in the
Mediterranean, around familiar landscapes to me. I often work with what is available around me- turning ordinary objects like black fabric, mirrors, olive branches into elements of my symbolic visual language.
The women in my work are no strangers to me- often friends, family, other artists. The work might start as a still photograph at first, then evolve into a short film or turn into a darkroom print.
When I was a teenager, I thought if I had enough friends all over the world, I could convince everyone to achieve everlasting peace. The artworks are often a result of endless channelled frustration combined with sudden visual stimulations and female collaboration that hopes to present a way of remaking the world.
Political rage combined with a visual obsession, I wondered if creating a new world of my own would be possible, and I picked up experimental cinema. In my films, women are performing fictional rituals of listening to seashells, making wings, being invisible, and dreaming in acrylic nails. In my film Milk, archived by the British Film Institute), women are pouring milk down a slit in the ground in post-future time.
I print my photographs from a darkroom in East London, butn when I am shooting, I am usually somewhere in the
Mediterranean, around familiar landscapes to me. I often work with what is available around me- turning ordinary objects like black fabric, mirrors, olive branches into elements of my symbolic visual language.
The women in my work are no strangers to me- often friends, family, other artists. The work might start as a still photograph at first, then evolve into a short film or turn into a darkroom print.
When I was a teenager, I thought if I had enough friends all over the world, I could convince everyone to achieve everlasting peace. The artworks are often a result of endless channelled frustration combined with sudden visual stimulations and female collaboration that hopes to present a way of remaking the world.
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