i am
2026 - ongoing
Multi-channel video and sound installation, Performance
The artist sending signals as lighthouses in multiple islands across isolated geographical borders.
through encoded frequencies of light and voice.
i am constitutes an ongoing multimedia intervention of multi-channel video-sound installation, photography.
The human body and voice operate as a transnational beacon. Linguistic data forces a physical convergence between migrant identity and geopolitical territoriality. Human existence undergoes a mechanical translation into temporal duration, spatial intervals, and repetitive optical signals.
The coordinates span multiple isolated islands across territorial borders. A human figure occupies these dispersed locations. In each channel, the artist rotates while chanting a repetitive syllable and projecting light, following rhythmic patterns translated from lighthouse signaling encoded using the Morse code translation (.. / .- --) of the phrase “i am” , transforming language into duration, interval, and repetition. Transforming the physical body and voice into a primitive communication apparatus exposes the chronic anxieties of immigrant identity within shifting geopolitical borders.
The relentless transmission of this fundamental existential claim acts as a visceral probing of belonging, utilizing bodily exhaustion to assert a more-than-human presence across unfamiliar territories.
Open Studio, Nordic Culture Point B28 Residency, 2026
Work in Progress (March 2026 - ongoing)
The work was conceptualised at Saari Residence, Kone Foundation (Jan–Feb 2026), and started filming on Suomenlinna, during B28 Residence, Nordic Culture Point (March 2026 -), Finland and Greenland supported by NAPA (Noridc Institute in Greenland), and will further be developed in other islands across borders in 2026, which will be concluded as a multi-channel video-sound installation and image series.
Suomenlinna, Finland, 2026
Sisimiut, Nuuk, Illulisat, Greenland, 2026