Upcoming: I Dress Therefore I Disrupt, 2025

Solo Exhibition – Platform, Vaasa

Vernissage June 14th at 17:00-19:00

Dressing is never neutral. It is a negotiation, a form shaped by fear, desire, memory, and refusal. In this new project, dressing becomes an aesthetic strategy for navigating postmigrant existence: not as performance or costume, but as a lived articulation of resistance under conditions of scrutiny and control.

The garments I wear are not curated for spectacle. They are drawn from the everyday, shaped by how I have had to move through institutions, checkpoints, and classrooms. Dressing, in this context, is a tactical act. It is the decision to signal or to obscure, to pass or to resist. The aesthetic choices in these photographs emerge not from fashion as a trend, but from survival as a learned practice.

This project draws on Édouard Glissant’s philosophy of opacity the right not to be fully known, translated, or explained. Rather than offering a linear narrative or presenting myself as a legible subject, I choose to occupy space through multiplicity and ambiguity. In a context where postmigrant bodies are often expected to perform clarity, pain, or assimilation, I turn instead to the aesthetics of refusal, not to disappear, but to remain complex. I dress not to be understood, but to inhabit the fullness of my presence. Visibility is not something I owe; it is something I navigate on my own terms.

Alongside the exhibition, I'll also be sharing my research text that I have conducted while working on this project.

Photographed by Viktor Plam

Assisted by Zarah Holmberg

More information coming soon