Artist statement

I am a non-binary visual artist and performer, born in Paris from Filipino heritage.

I have been working with visual art for more than a decade: analog photography, screenprinting, painting and installation.

Along to visual arts, my practice has expanded into movement, performance, and participatory facilitation.

Through my art, I want to pull the viewer out of the position of someone who watches from a distance. I am increasingly interested in what happens when the audience is no longer passive and when participation replaces observation, and when silliness, vulnerability, and collective play become acts of resistance.

I am drawn to the ways technology reshapes what it means to feel seen, especially for LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent people navigating systems that were not built for them.

But I am equally drawn to what no screen can hold: the language of the body, the way movement carries identity, the way joy can be a political stance of sharing space with other people.

My work asks: what do we do with ourselves when we stop performing for others, for societal norms? I like to offer an invitation to sit with small discomfort and laugh at the absurd.

Through installations, photographs, printmaking, and live performance, I use the gap between technology and the body as a space to think out loud about trans identity, collective intimacy, and what it means to be human right now.

I believe art can hold people who have been told they don’t belong.

And I believe that making space for that is a practice worth committing to.

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