I make drawings, paintings and sculptures as a performative practice; to explore how we inhabit our bodies in a foreign context while making bridges to connect. I aim to reclaim the meaning of home and place. The gestures on the pieces explore social structures like belonging, translation, and power dynamics. From the family dinner table to more public social circles like Art world events where sometimes you feel included and some other times you can’t gain access. The sources are taken from staged theatrical or cinematic contexts to portray the tension that is created inside and outside that circle. I take part as both, the artist and the audience constantly moving from the insider point of view to the periphery where I gain perspective on what, how and when to disclose parts of my identity that feel threatened by the mass discourse. Painting and drawing become expressions beyond language. Work that embodies vulnerability and changes with the shaping of new understandings.