Who I Am and How I Work

My work begins with encounter. With listening. With the certainty that art is not only a personal expression, but a collective practice capable of weaving bonds, activating memories, and opening spaces for transformation.
I have spent years working in dialogue with diverse communities: children, women from Indigenous communities, older adults, and residents of peripheral neighborhoods. Each process is unique, but they all start the same way: with my feet on the ground and my ears wide open.

The first phase is always about listening and building connections. Listening to what is said, what is unspoken, what is remembered and what is forgotten. Walking through the place, having unhurried conversations, letting time do its work. I build relationships based on respect, trust, and a shared desire to create something together.

Then comes the creation of a shared space: a place where we can embroider, draw, tell stories, recall experiences, play, invent. The technique matters less than the possibility of imagining together. In those workshops — which are not a preliminary stage but the very heart of the work — the essential happens: art as conversation, as a gesture made by many hands.

From that living space, materials, phrases, symbols, scenes, and images begin to emerge. Then comes the moment of collective creation: organizing what has surfaced, working with care, transforming scattered elements into a visual, sound, or embodied narrative that preserves the voices of those who originated it. At this point, my role is to be in service of the process — to translate without appropriating, to amplify without imposing.

The final work — a book, an installation, an exhibition, an intervention in public space — is just another way of circulating what we’ve experienced. The production is not an endpoint, but a way of giving back. That’s why I always return to the community what we created together: we share the work, hold public presentations, leave copies, records, memories. So that what was sown is not lost, so that the story continues on its path.

Above all, my practice is a form of cultural mediation. I am interested in creating conditions for other voices to emerge, for other ways of knowing — sometimes silenced or displaced — to find their place. Aesthetics matter to me, but never on their own. My commitment is also political: to work from the collective, with a vocation for connection, always imagining alongside others.

This is what I do. This is what moves me.