I Dress, Therefore I Disrupt (Self-portraits), 2025
40 x 50 cm
Light painting, photography, inkjet print (Giclée), oak frames

Shot in the forests of Finland that recall the hidden geographies of my displacement during the 2015 refugee crisis, this series of night self-portraits explores the right to opacity, as proposed by Édouard Glissant.

Through light painting and long exposure, I reclaim the language of visibility once used to surveil and control. These are not reconstructions of memory, but counter-images. The light that was once exposed and endangered now becomes a tool of refusal, defiance, and authorship.

Dressing is not performance, it is a daily survival tactic, a political act, a visual disruption.

Created in collaboration with Finnish artist Viktor Palm.

This solo exhibition is part of a project I conducted during my residency at Platform in Finland.

I Dress, Therefore I Disrupt:  Fashion as Aesthetic Strategy in Post-Migratory Visual Practice (conceptual essay), 2025

As part of the exhibition, I developed a conceptual essay grounded in the research conducted during my residency in Vaasa, Finland. The essay examines dressing as a method of disruption and resistance, particularly within the context of migration and visibility politics.

Presented as an independent work within the exhibition, the text introduces writing as a methodological element of my practice and reflects how research operates alongside visual production in this project.

A framed first draft of the essay was exhibited on the wall, highlighting its provisional and processual character. Next to it, a separate sculptural installation displayed a limited edition of printed copies, available only during the exhibition.

This decision was made to resist the logic of broad, unrestricted circulation and instead offer access to the essay in a controlled, intimate setting, one shaped by presence, encounter, and spatial context. By doing so, the work questioned who gets access to knowledge, under what conditions, and through which modes of distribution.

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