BOOM Concepts Art Space
Art Residency Exhibtion. Pittsburgh. PA
Goole Arts & Culture: https://artsandculture.google.com/story/binds-bonds-symbolic-somatic-experience/VwJSMN7pI0VwLw?hl=en
Binds & Bonds, is a site specific installation through which the artist explores and articulates the somatic experience in response to trauma in a visual form and in video art; Trauma is at the focus of the investigation and the FIGHT FLIGHT and FREEZE responses were researched and transformed in to artistic process and presentation. The constant repetition preformed in the art emphasize the accumulation and strength of this experience and the PTSD that keep coming up for the individual and the collective.
In a traumatic event the Fight-Flight-or-Freeze (F3) response is activated as the body’s automatic reaction to protect us from threat or danger.
FREEZE - A major part of the installation named FREE_ZE reflecting on the collective response to Corona and Racists persecution with the wish of being Free from the Freeze. The repetition speaks volume of the historical endless continuation of creating this trauma.
FIGHT or LIGHT - Animals made of white flexible leather like material, hung loosely on the wall with falling down pieces and cutout holes and words.
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts,Solo Exhibition
Pittsburgh, PA, 2016
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In this installation, which is constructed from found/made objects, sculptural lines and forms, I touch on existential questions regarding the past and the present, identity and experience. I inquire into the uncertainty of being. I am exploring what is left and absent, moving from the ground to the open space, and experiencing transformation. I am trying to capture the line or vein to explore the signs, marks, codes and symbols that may still be recognized for what they were before. Fragmentation and existential anxiety can be felt in the pieces that are tied and connected by string and metal. The minimal emptiness and presence express feelings that cannot be articulated.
As I go through identity transformations, I recognize the marks that have been left by own experiences and traumas continue to live in me. The wish to let the narratives be memories reduced to a non figurative suggestive sign or a cut, a wound, a void, a footprint, a word, a letter, a pain, and a blank. The installations that I formed become an idiosyncratic text that is open for interpretation.
PIttsburgh Center For The Arts
Pittsburgh, PA
This installation was part of the solo exhibtion Footsteps In The Sand.
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Uprooted exhibtied in the Solo exhibtion Footsteps In The Sand.
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts
Remnants exhibited as part of the Solo exhibtion Footsteps In The Sand. Temporariness is been researched through different objects and processes including reference to Amos Oz novel on Love and Darkness.
CA Gallery. Bultimore, MD
Solo Exhibtion including installations.
Creating sisterhood between women that religions trajectories constrained their lives.
(Prayer rugs, fabrics, text, menstrua pads, bowels)
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Agora Gallery, NY City. NY
Fiber Art International Pittsburgh, PA
CA Gallery Baltimore, MD
This series was growing slowly in different galleries different part of the series were exhibited chronologically
My series Cutting challenges the oppressive objectified and dehumanizing phenomenon of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). This practice, still performed across the world, subjugates the female body and is a basic violation of women’s rights and future. Through my artistic objects I would like to bring into visibility, recognition and awareness what is far from the eye and mind of the art gallery spectator. Cutting aestheticizes an inhuman experience that if presented as is would be sickening to observe or tolerate. This body of works is made of clay, rusty springs, sticks, threads and staining. My artistic process here is important and involved kneading, shaping, pocking, tearing and cutting, embedding and stitching the clay in a symbolic act of FGM.
Relationships I, Farmhouse & Jask Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, 2017
Mixed Media, modeling clay, oil paste, 12” X 8”
West Morland Museum, Greensburg, PA
Seaton Hill University. Harllen Gallery. Greensburg, PA
Mixed Media, clay, readymade healing objects, fabric, threads, 3’ X 1’
This work is comprised of four square clay panels in which commonly used items for healing physical wounds become metaphors for mending the pain of loss. This work is related to my father’s passing and some of the items he left beside his bed.
Artsmiths Gallery Space and Spinning Plate Art Space. Pittsburgh, PA
Installation 6’ X 5’ X 6’, Fabrics, printed hidden texts, nails, sand, and stones
Honoring is a critical work on all domestic abuse, presenting the act of Stoning. The act of Stoning is no different from any other weapon as the intention is to kill. This Installation reveals the violence imposed on women’s bodies. It exemplifies acts of honor killing and domestic abuse. The material used in the work are meant to express the vulnerability of women’s existence.
Hoyte Museum, New Castle, PA
Mix Media 40”x40 (cardboard, fabrics, threads, paint, nails)
This work symbolically paraphrases the American Flag to express political and social turmoil and the instability of nationalistic ideas
Space Gallery, Pittsburgh. PA.
Part of Relic group exhibition. Postponed because of Covid 19. will be presented September 2021
