ABOUT ME

I am a Montreal-based media and mobile artist.

Creation is my way of being in the world. Through presence and connection, I enter into dialogue with objects, materials, characters, places, and landscapes to open up and expand their meaning.

This expansion opens their material reality toward something broader, sometimes inner, symbolic, or poetic.

In my work, a basin can carry the everyday gestures of women in Senegal; a prayer veil can evoke grief and intercultural displacement; a door or an alleyway can become a threshold, an in-between space. A curtain questions the filters through which we view another culture; a mountain becomes a moment of elevation; an African fabric evokes birth and arrival in a new territory.

Where does this perspective come from?

At the age of 20, my encounter with Africa changed the course of my life. Over the years, Senegal became deeply connected to my personal history and my family. I built a mixed-cultural family and lived between different cultures, experiencing their richness, but also their differences in perspective, distances, separations, and the powerful emotions that accompany them. Living between different cultures has taught me that the same reality can be understood in many different ways. It is also from this journey that my desire to expand the meaning of what I encounter, from the singular to the universal, was born.

This unconventional life journey, shaped by periods of single motherhood, changes in direction, and the constant need to adapt, taught me to transform difficulties into resilience, and resilience into strength. It has nourished my search for meaning, my need for freedom, and my pursuit of joy. The themes of connection, distance, the in-between, difference, passage, transformation, and shifts in meaning that run through my work are not abstract concepts to me: I have lived them.

What are my creative tools?

My work always begins with photography or video created using a mobile phone, which lies at the heart of my mobile art practice. I do not define myself as a photographer; I approach the mobile phone as an artist’s tool, much like a painter uses a brush. The images I capture become artistic material, light, color, forms and textures, that I transform through my creative process. In some projects, my own body enters the space and becomes a tool for exploration and connection with the place. Through photo-projection or video-projection, I use a projector to bring together two or more elements captured separately, creating a new image.

Mobile photography, photo-video projection, are different languages within the same artistic practice, each allowing me to explore and uncover new layers of meaning.

My practice also extends to installations and immersive experiences. Through multimedia, I bring photography, video-photo projection, sound, singing and musical instruments, movement, into relationship, giving them a shared space. I freely approach these different languages as materials for creation and encounter. Born from my travels and explorations, these installations become sensory journeys in their own right, journeys born from my own, where the public is invited to experience the work through their individual perceptions.

Why is travel so present in my artistic practice? Is it essential?

There is a correspondence between travel and my artistic approach: I move through the world, and through that movement, the meaning of what I encounter can also shift and expand. Presence is what makes this relationship possible.

Travel is an important driving force in my practice because it takes me beyond my familiar points of reference and shifts my perspective. In a less familiar environment, my attention becomes sharper: I observe objects, gestures, places, and ways of inhabiting the world more closely. But travel is not essential in a geographical sense. What is essential is this state of curiosity and openness that makes it possible to see differently. Elsewhere can be thousands of kilometres away or just around the corner.

 

 

Why the mobile phone and mobile art?

Above all, the mobile phone gives me tremendous freedom. Always with me, it allows me to create spontaneously, follow an intuition, change direction, and create without interrupting what I am experiencing. This freedom and spontaneity are at the heart of my practice: they allow me to step outside established frameworks, think differently, and let possibilities emerge that I might not otherwise have anticipated.

What happens to the artwork when it enters a new space?

I like to think that its journey continues. It invites the person who lives with it to see differently, to discover what surrounds them, and to remain curious about the world. I hope it can set in motion again what seemed fixed, open up new perceptions, and inspire a desire to explore, whether far away or close to home.