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, but
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 for 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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