Artist Statement

This project emerges from a condition of in-betweenness—between presence and absence, belonging and displacement, what can be spoken and what inevitably remains unsaid. It begins with a personal necessity shaped by migration: living with attachment across distance and simultaneously experiencing connection and rupture. 

At the core of my work is the question of inhabiting an identity that never fully stabilizes. Migration produces a state in which familiarity and estrangement coexist, both in relation to one’s place of origin and in encountering the country that has become home. This condition does not resolve itself but remains in constant negotiation—marked by longing, partial recognition, and emotional fragmentation. Within this terrain, the question of how experience can be expressed—particularly those shaped by care, separation, and maternal absence—moves not toward answers, but toward suspension. 

Rather than clarity, the work relies on suspension, suggesting forms through pauses, distances, and layers, where what is withheld carries as much presence as what is visible. Encounters with the work unfold between proximity and distance, where understanding is never complete, and meaning emerges through shifting interpretations. The experience moves through layers of misrecognition, partial understanding, and moments of empathy—without any one of these prevailing—and comes to resemble a sustained pause within incompletion.  

In this state, Memory, identity, and feeling remain unstable, persisting as a presence that claims neither resolution nor return, but continues—fragile and ongoing—across distance and change