ARTIST STATEMENT

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My work examines how cultural and intergenerational conditioning shape gendered expectations, positioning women as embodied subjects within systems that regulate visibility, autonomy, and self-determination. Working across sculpture, installation, painting, and film, I draw on narrative strategies informed by my background as a storyteller to construct works that are personal and at times autobiographical, while extending beyond individual experience. Unfolding across distinct bodies of work with a shared conceptual foundation, my practice engages questions of mortality, control, resilience, and transformation.

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My sculpture practice incorporates vintage found objects, particularly those associated with childhood, alongside fabricated forms. I frequently use idealized mannequin fragments, garments, and domestic materials as stand-ins for the body, invoking culturally constructed Western ideals of femininity and appearance. Domestic objects, clothing, food, and corporeal fragments function as repositories of cultural memory and psychological projection, carrying traces of inherited belief systems and personal histories. Through their arrangement and transformation, these materials become vehicles through which I investigate identity, objectification, bodily autonomy, intergenerational imprint, and impermanence.

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My paintings move between abstraction and figuration, saturation and restraint, expression and control. Guided by an intuitive process, I employ simplified forms, graphic black linework, and surreal figurative distortions to construct images in which bodies emerge, fragment, and transform, reflecting the multifaceted self. I return to the female form as a site of both personal experience and cultural inscription, while nature serves as a metaphor for endurance and renewal. Together, these elements offer a way to explore identity, resilience, and transformation.​ I sign my work Dagu, the name I gave myself as a child, as a way of honoring intuition, play, and the freedom of self-invention that lies at the heart of my creative practice.