REMEMBERING is an investigation of the metaphor of the body as ‘home’, positioned as a vessel carrying ancestral memory, pain and reclamation. An offering into a portal of sound, video, movement and ritual, I explore how women of diaspora navigate the tensions between disconnection and belonging, ritual and modernity, tradition and survival in the West.
The film work is a documentation of weaving, collecting, untangling and arranging physical data in symbolic formations, while embodying movement through a hybrid of traditional and contemporary dance. This weaving together of practices enacts remembrance of ancestral homelands while highlighting the liminal space of diasporic existence.
Photographic stills from Remembering
My work honours the fragmented pieces of culture left behind and ones way to recollect, reweave and remember, while searching for a spiritual wholeness that transcends geography. In this in-between space – blurred, sacred yet unresolved – I find the comfort in the roots that keep me bound on this Australian soil and the motion that pulls me towards the landscapes of the motherland.
