My practice has always been informed by the body, as the place I return to over and over again. The body is my ground for creation, for study, and for claiming presence and healing within the conditions of today’s world.
It is a gateway into a living system where mind and body, personal and collective continuously meet. It is where sensory aliveness, political urgency, and spiritual commitment converge.
Up until 2018, I considered myself silent, disconnected from the depth of my expression. My voice emerged soon after through wild screams in the studio—unsettling and greatly disruptive—yet opening the way into a new relationship with the world. Since then, working with voice has become central to all of my work: personal, collective, artistic, social, spiritual.
My path began in studying Fashion Design in London in 2010, through an early fascination with weaving, as both material and metaphor. I explored processes that wove interconnected systems, interlacing body, memory, fibre, identity, history, and belonging into form. Soon after graduating, and in parallel with war unfolding in my home country, I turned beyond the layers of textile and more deeply toward the body, seeking access to its complex ways and regenerative capacities to tap into the potential for change and transformation.
For over 15 years, my work has moved across body-based practices, somatic studies, improvisation techniques, dance, meditation, with voice becoming a pivotal axis in the last decade. All of this becoming the foundation and guiding force for both my artistic and social work.
My practice includes performance making, sound, collage, movement, video, and writing, extending into grassroots initiatives, community-based projects, and pedagogical work over a spectrum of settings and contexts.
I create and facilitate spaces for practicing artists, as well as for people that have been silenced and marginalized, where embodiment, listening, and voice become urgent tools and resources for healing and collective change.
My work is deeply rooted in sensory knowledge and education, ecology, politics, and radical imagination. I seek to open new possibilities and pathways toward more connected, responsive, and liberated ways of being together.
You can visit my art-based website to learn more about my artistic work.
ABOUT ME
Our VOICE is more than an instrument. It is a living current that moves through our inner world in the form of vibration. It carries not only words and melodies, but states, textures, rhythms, tones, dreams, and entangled histories and mysteries.
Its origin is breath: the pulse of being alive, the place we enter to arrive in presence and in relation to the world. As we let our voice out and hear ourselves in real time, a feedback loop is created, becoming an act of arrival in place, and a full circular embodiment of I am here.
While sound is matter, and matter is sound, the voice has the capacity to resonate through the entire body, where bones, tissues, and cavities become chambers of vibration and transmission. It carries the capacity to inhabit the fullness of being, accessing deep tissue-memory, needs and desires, imaginal spaces and terrains, while freeing the body-mind in the form of expansive expression and extended communication.
Tuning-in to deep listening gives way to entering voice. A subtle turning of the ear toward that which moves within, gives the voice the potential not only to resonate with the body, but also with all living forms. The finer tuning of listening and extending, the finer thread of voice is woven in relationship with the object of meditation. It creates an opening that connects our deepest truths with the forces that move us, and the voices that pull our attention in different directions.
Voice’s nature is to travel. It crosses space, touches others, and leaves traces in time. A single sound can linger, echo, transform a moment, or shift a relationship completely. Through it, we engage ourselves into a shared field of relating, listening and speaking, weaving a living space of interaction and world-building.
Voice also acts as a threshold between the private and the public. It is where individual and collective power is found. Where liberation is closely linked to having a voice, to giving voice to the voiceless, to demanding rights, to fighting for justice, to reclaiming expression, to be acknowledged with sovereignty and dignity.
From the very beginning, voice marks our arrival. The first cry is both a biological reflex and a declaration. It signals presence, need, and entry into relationship with the mother and the world. From that moment on, much of human struggle and growth can be traced back to the voice: learning to use it, silencing it, reclaiming it, strengthening it, trusting it.
It carries the imprint of our past, what is present in the here and now, and the possibility of what we are becoming.