My practice examines how language, systems, and contemporary social structures shape everyday experiences of movement, identity, and belonging. Working across performance, installation, text, video, and archival research, I focus on how political frameworks enter daily life through administrative processes such as forms, permits, classifications, and inherited rules that govern who can move, speak, or appear.

I approach borders as lived conditions that organise bodies, temporalities, and relations, extending beyond their function as geopolitical lines. A recurring concern in my work is how systems of governance produce presence and absence, shaping visibility, access, and participation in uneven ways. I engage with official language and bureaucratic documents as material, reading, interrupting, and reworking them to reveal their underlying logic. Through this, I understand freedom as something continuously negotiated, deferred, or with held rather than a fixed state.

This inquiry is grounded in personal and regional histories of displacement. My ongoing project, Vranofça Archive, is a community archive tracing intergenerational migration from Gorno Vranovci (present-day North Macedonia) to Turkey in the 1950s. Bringing together oral histories, family photographs, and everyday materials, the archive remains open, fragmented, and shaped through collective contributions. It considers how memory persists outside official records and how everyday practices carry political weight.

Performance has become central to my recent work, particularly in Global Talent Immigration Performance, an ongoing project that stages my own immigration status as a durational and administrative condition. In this work, legal frameworks function as scripts, timelines operate as constraints, and waiting becomes a form of labour. It attends to how borders operate through time as much as through space, producing uncertainty, repetition, and delay.

Across my practice, I am interested in language as both a mechanism of control and a potential site of resistance. I look for ways to inhabit, stretch, and unsettle institutional forms, creating space for ambiguity, opacity, and alternative modes of relation.