My work explores the contradictions associated with colonial heritage, language, and mechanisms of domination.
I started with a simple question: why do I express my anti-institutional and decolonial thoughts in French, a language that historically entered my life through the very same paths of violence that I criticize?
This tension has become the foundation of my projects exploring hegemonic structures and their potential reappropriation as tools of resistance.
My work takes the language of the colonizers to degrade it: may it lose its status, may its rights be denied, may it suffer damage, may it irreversibly transform into heat that will burn the fascists, and may their ashes become the fertilizer for the renewal of language.
Could you converse the way I do?
I coo, I grind up Molière’s language.
I reduce language to clay dust so I can reshape it, to sculpt a language that resembles me and that can reflect me in its mirror.