My work reflects on the relationship between our bodies and the territories in which they evolve. I am interested in bodies that are exiled, de-territorialised, displaced. Our bodies are shaped by our habitus. We are rarely conscious of what drives them, and what pushes them to act a certain way. Unintentionally, we are responding to social expectations that dictate our behaviours. As children, teenager and adults, we replicate specific movements without knowing what pushes us to perform them, sometimes with discomfort, disconnect or discordance. Nevertheless, we need routines to make one with society and with others.    

The threefold dimension of my identity leaves me wondering: what kind of relationship do I have with my own body? Am I certain I ever owned myself and have I ever belonged to the right place? I was born in Yarmouk, the largest Palestinian camp in Syria, a city inside the city intended as a temporary haven. Therefore, I am longing for a land that I have never known. I am the child of a stateless father born in Syria and an Ukrainian mother, later on I was forced into exile by the war. Exile generates an intense process of dispossession. In order to be able to settle into a new place, and to be socially integrated, I have to conform to a new routine. Thus, I need to adopt new movements and to “mimic” a behaviour that puts me off