MY BODY IS A HINTERLAND 2024

Drawings on wood from my creative residency at SAW Center (Ottawa, Canada) in 2024, in partnership with the French Embassy in Canada as part of the ART + CONTESTATION research and production residency program.

These drawings present a personal approach to the Grünheide protest near Berlin and the Chalk River protest in Ontario (Canada), where activists are respectively fighting against the expansion of a TESLA plant in Germany and the Chalk River nuclear waste disposal project in Canada (a project opposed by local First Nations and environmental activists).

This series of drawings plays on the contrasts between the texture of the wood and the softness of the drawing, representing a part of the human body. The title suggests an exploration of the body as a geographical space, questioning the relationship between the body and the space it occupies, and inviting reflection on identity, self-perception and civic struggles inscribed in the body.