SHARED VIEW
Shared View delves into autobiographical and collective memory, tracing the intersections of identity, land, and belonging. It reimagines home as a site in perpetual flux, where places, landscapes, events, and rituals converge to create a dynamic poetics of assembly. How do we navigate the in-between—where memory becomes movement, and borders dissolve into gestures of connection?
Shared View delves into autobiographical and collective memory, tracing the intersections of identity, land, and belonging. It reimagines home as a site in perpetual flux, where places, landscapes, events, and rituals converge to create a dynamic poetics of assembly. How do we navigate the in-between—where memory becomes movement, and borders dissolve into gestures of connection?
The installation invites a sense of transitory immersion, where haptic and tactile experiences emerge through layered in-between spaces. Moving image projections weave together archival footage, field recordings, site-specific rituals, and tangible artifacts, creating a sensory landscape of translation. This rhythmic, cinematic assemblage builds temporal relationships and forms a compositional transmission of meaning within an interactive, immersive environment. What stories and histories unfold in the act of translating memory through sound, light, and material?
Drawing from an autoethnographic journey to Morocco, I enacted rituals rooted in my mother's stories and the lived experiences of the women in my family. These gestures of mediation, crossing physical, virtual, and digital boundaries, transformed performance documentation, cultural archives, field recordings, and ephemera into a dynamic composition of diasporic belonging. How can the fragmented past be choreographed into new constellations of meaning and shared connection?
The installation features multi-channel video projections, moving images, wooden sculptures, rugs, a photographic archive, mirrored sculptures, and sound.
Commissioned by Artworx Toronto in 2022 and curated by Claudia Arana as part of Terra Firma HOME(LAND). It also includes an interactive, audiovisual augmented reality (AR) environment, extending the act of translation into a speculative, immersive space. What new dimensions of belonging can emerge when memory, technology, and embodiment intersect?
This research creation project draws on research supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.