Blue
Blue Project Blue/ Albastru / Azul / Neelam. The video work presents three video performances interlaid with original spoken word poems in Romanian/ Portuguese/English and an interpretative dance piece using the idiom of Bharatanatyam.
- Blue, 2023Video Performance, 16:07 min.
Misstatement
Juxtaposition of communication. What I say and what I really feel.Saudade or the feeling of longing, can be described as an act of love and memory.However, for those who set out on the road to distant lands and find this companion, they feel the weight of its call and often find themselves unable to describe what they lack. The prison is internal and the body feels wounded. Language frees, but needs to be recited and understood. Finding new loves, retracing the path and living with the past is a challenge that every immigrant faces. Being able to express yourself is freeing yourself from the ties that isolate you from belonging to the present.
- Misstatement, 2023 Video Performance 5:01
Saudade
Saudade is a Portuguese and Galician word for a feeling of longing for something that can be time, place, person(s), a feeling, a moment, objects, a situation, an idea, a state of mind or a relationship phase etc. . Doesn't translate well in English, despite being a sentiment well known to all of us.
Saudade is also related to happiness, when memories and nostalgic moments are brought into the present. Or in imagining things that might happen in the future if the present were changed. Longing is something we carry with us. We don't want to miss it because it's related to memory. Therefore, it becomes part of our identity.
Saudade is also related to happiness, when memories and nostalgic moments are brought into the present. Or in imagining things that might happen in the future if the present were changed. Longing is something we carry with us. We don't want to miss it because it's related to memory. Therefore, it becomes part of our identity.
- Saudade, 2023Video Performance. Poem 3:00 min
Invisible Woman
Short story based on the struggles of the marginalised Black Women and the interconnected pathways that need to be crossed so their voice could be heard beyond the realm of reality and time. Can all of us be ourselves, independent of our current social, culture and economic situation? How do we pray for the wonders of feminism to someone who survives under overlayers of disvantages and discrimination?
Invisible Woman, 2022 Stop motion video animation in Rubber charcoal drawings - 3:15 min.
Invisible Woman, 2022 Stop motion video animation in Rubber charcoal drawings - 3:15 min.