mobility/
nomadic/
portable/
uncertainty/
solitude/
detachment/
isolation/
memory/
belongings/
domesticity/
daughterhood/
cultural identity/
control/
surveillance/
My MFA research investigates how bodies inhabit displacement, constraint, and provisional conditions through a material-led, site-responsive practice. Working across sculpture, textiles, and spatial structures, I translate experiences of stillness, self-regulation, surveillance, isolation, and care into tangible form.
Focusing on domestic and bodily scales under precarity, my work examines how presence, connection, and adaptation are negotiated within systems of ownership, mobility, and control. Care and resilience emerge not as fixed states but as ongoing, situated responses to structural limitations.
The research unfolds across six thematic strands:
stillness and witnessing,
conditional home, and
Together, they trace how individuals navigate, inhabit, and adapt within regulated and precarious environments.
01 - Stillness and Witnessing
Time, observation, and the quiet labour of care and attention.
These works consider how stillness, repetition, and waiting register care and presence across temporal, spatial, and relational distance. They trace the emotional economies of life under migration, separation, or marginalisation.
02 - Conditional Connection
Relationality as provisional, contingent, and ethically negotiated.
The work explores connection and intimacy as uncertain and conditional, framing detachment and self-care as both aesthetic and ethical strategies in navigating contemporary social and spatial precarity.
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03 - Practices of Refusal
Interaction with environment, signals, borders, and ambient systems of regulation.
Site-responsive and wearable interventions explore how visibility and environmental conditions shape presence and autonomy. Through concealment and obstruction, the works enact subtle forms of refusal within permeable and contested space.
04 - domestic panopticons
Domestic space as a site of visibility, control, and provisional care; furniture and objects as instruments and metaphors of surveillance, constraint, and fragile inhabitation.
This chapter examines how domestic environments operate as panoptic systems, where observation and control are embedded in everyday objects and routines. Skeletal frameworks, fragmentary furniture, and reduced interiors reveal the subtle infrastructures that govern care, movement, and presence. These works trace the tension between visibility and vulnerability, highlighting how individuals negotiate care, restriction, and adaptation within spaces that are simultaneously protective, surveilled, and provisional.
05 - Disciplined body
The body under constraint, negotiating comfort, posture, and presence within controlled or precarious environments.
This chapter explores how physical inhabitation becomes a site of subtle compromise and internalised discipline. Works examine how property, social expectation, and temporality shape bodily comportment, making visible the hidden labour of inhabiting.
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06 - Conditional Home
The body inhabits a fragile home; presence and belonging are always conditional.
This chapter explores domestic space as precarious, regulated, and provisional. Marginal inhabitation, deferred ownership, and spatial compression shape how the body and presence are negotiated.
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