Ongoing Narratives

Ongoing Narratives merges staged photography and sculptural assemblage to explore body and psychological landscape. Using discarded materials and my own body, I construct scenes where fragility and migration shift between image and object.

Ongoing Narratives explores the interplay between physical form and psychological landscape through staged photography and semi-sculptural collages. I construct physical assemblages using discarded and synthetic materials alongside my own body as extensions of interior experience. Objects, surfaces, and architectural fragments become carriers of emotional states, forming spatial dialogues between corporeal presence and psychological tension.

Each scene is physically built and photographed. I am drawn to discarded materials because they carry traces of use, labor, and time; their prior histories hold vulnerability and impermanence. I respond intuitively to materials such as rubber, mesh, tubes, balloons, and reflective surfaces, gravitating toward their elasticity, resistance, and tactility. These materials echo the body as they stretch, compress, conceal, and expose. Fragmentation and partial visibility recur, creating instability and spatial ambiguity. The image oscillates between two and three dimensions, between object and representation, interior and exterior, human and non-human.

My experience of migration informs the work’s underlying sense of suspension and negotiation. The body becomes both shelter and site of adaptation, constructing belonging within instability. From a feminine perspective, I question how bodies are framed and consumed, enacting tension and agency through material construction rather than passive display.

For me, photography is a way to crystallize fragility. It captures a moment when perception intersects with matter, temporarily solidifying into form. While some works remain as photographic images, others extend beyond the frame into sculptural assemblages, allowing the photograph to function as both image and object.

Ongoing Narratives treats materiality as a bridge between seeing and sensing, inviting viewers into an embodied encounter where psychological states take physical form.