rym hayouni l selected work
performance art | installation | film
It is born from a necessity: to address political urgencies with poetic tools.
To stretch, fluidize, flip over
colonial relations to land, to stories, to ecology, to spirit.
Child’s gaze is my playful tactic
to grasps the immediate, the accidental, the spark of the fantastic,
and turn it into ways of pursuing, imagining, and constructing futuristic sceneries.
The work becomes a terrain to unearth how we regard and relate to the land,
to unveil the social, ecological and cultural implications of colonial legacies.
To claim a poetic justice.
of sites, materials, images, sounds, bodies.
As the spectator moves through the spaces I craft, they move through the narrative;
they traverse through the body,
they traverse through the senses,
the site folds into the work, the work unfolds as a phenomenological passage,
a reminder of one’s own presence, one’s own time.
I use erasure, trace, reminiscence, fragmentation,
visible, audible, narrative.
The performances becomes unstable, porous, multimodal,
open to composition,
open to recomposition, from any entry.
An invitation to agency,
to responsibility
to mobilization