Artist Statement
My practice integrates interdisciplinary methods and materials – ranging from remnants of consumer waste and personal objects to digital sculpting techniques – to explore hybrid identity, the fragile impermanence and musicality of human experience, and moments of transformative interaction. By blending new technologies, like 3D modelling and digital embroidery with craft processes, such as ceramics and hand-embroidery, I create hybrid structures that depict bodies in motion, embodying a sense of transience and playfulness. These immersive works engage viewers in the interplay of memory and identity, capturing fleeting moments where time and space seems fused together.
Influenced by artists and theorists like, Jeffrey Gibson, Ibrahim Mahama and Stuart Hall, my work reclaims materials historically denigrated as craft and contemporarily viewed as waste to monumentalise overlooked people and narratives. Situated within the context of migration and intersectional diasporic identity, I draw on my Hungarian-Romanian-British-Jamaican heritage to study material and metaphorical remnants, uncovering hidden meanings, memories and narratives that extend beyond the margins of rationality.
Through sensory interaction and special engagement, I invite viewers to reflect on and celebrate the musicality of communal resonance within our spiritual and material existence. My practice addresses issues of racial stereotyping, cultural synchronisation and unification, offering a space where personal and collective histories and dimensions converge. It encourages a deeper understanding of our entangled and shared humanity.
In other words, it offers a counterbalance to dominant cultural narratives that are being produced and presented about a specific group of people, to tell my side of the story.
