WRITE ME A LAND

WRITE ME A LAND is a 2025 project belonging to the genre of Photoliterature. It addresses memory and family history through the use of bodywriting, narrative art, videography, art writing, installation art, life writing and performance art.

Written on pieces of fabric, called 'pieces of story' are excerpts from the beginning of a novel about the artist's family home and history. These pieces of story were arranged in different areas of the property and observed during the course of a week, through photography and annotations.

The last step of this project was for the artist to portray herself with her own text, and involving bodywriting for the piece of story that lay beside the lake, and inside the water during the last take.

Coming from the idea that these pieces of story portray the artist's family life and history, and that words often act as clothes in bodywriting experiments, the pieces of stories became a form of clothing - one that cannot be controlled, playing around with its surrounding elements such as wind, rain, water and grass, but mostly one that doesn't fit and that the artist has to force around her body, much alike the transmission of family history.

WRITE ME A LAND is an ongoing project - see below for more information and exclusives.

WRITE ME A LAND

BEYOND THE PASTORAL - a University of Brighton student-led symposium and exhibition

The WRITE ME A LAND project is a visual and auditory exploration of the artist's family home in the south of France. Inspired by French artist Sophie Calle, this autobiographical work explores the themes of identity and belonging within memory and family history through the use of bodywriting, life writing, narrative art and performance.

As an homage to family history, it forms a reflection around the "meditation on a state of Nature outside of time", through the artist's own introspection and spiritual growth.

In a family context where the transmission of history is scattered throughout childhood and by different people with different accounts of the same events, this project plays on the fallibility of memory and time passing: in the same way the house changes through the decades, destroying her history in the process, nature changes the story the artist has written, modifying the memories it has been given.

WRITE ME A LAND is an ongoing project - to see more upcoming events and information, see below.