Floor talk | Searching for my work – PhD work in progress

Abstract

Searching for My Work is a research residency that unfolds through material experimentation and artistic inquiry, focusing on the intersections of identity, memory, and decolonial feminist perspectives. This project explores how personal and collective histories are preserved, embodied, and reinterpreted through mixed-media processes. Working between photography, cyanotypes, textiles, and archival materials, I investigate the ways in which cultural heritage and gendered experiences are inscribed onto the body and space. My process is slow and layered, embracing the act of making as a means of reflection and discovery. By engaging with fabric, light-sensitive prints, and material residues, I trace connections between past and present, absence and presence, visibility and erasure. Rather than presenting a final exhibition, this residency transforms Spectrum into an evolving workspace—an active site where research takes form through artistic practice. The space will reveal how material choices, processual methods, and conceptual frameworks shape the work’s development. Through this approach, Searching for My Work invites audiences to engage with the fluid, iterative nature of art-making, positioning the act of searching itself as a critical mode of inquiry