This installation brings together multiple sculptures with sound to explore the coexistence of fragility and fluidity. I reflect on the complexity of nonbinary identities and the experience of being raised and read through female socialisation.
The structure in the middle holds the costume of my diploma performance that happened at Porteous. It is inspired by a fish walking on land, the mudskipper, which carries backfins similar to wings. Around the structure, on the walls and on the floor, are fixed a series of mixed-media sculptures connected by cables. They hold transducers inside, which transform the surfaces into speakers for an underwater sound I recorded in the river Rhône. I combine these recent works with the structure I created as a bar for the school in my second year of the bachelor. It is a space created to be as open as possible while still providing a specific cocoon as an alternative to the blue building. It is also a sculpture created out of shattered and rejoined abandoned windows. Last but not least, the piece I created for the Big Simili Show in 2022, inspired by Yayoi Kusama’s installations, invites the viewer to enter endless mirrored perspectives of the whole installation.
The space is meant to be noticed from all its sides and discovered in all its corners.
I work as a sound, sculpture, and installation artist with an assembling and improvisational approach. These projects are a direct tool for me to resist societal constraints placed on queer and female-assigned bodies.