LE MISTRAL W
FEEL THE WIND : LE MISTRAL / THE SPLASH (multi-channel installation, 15min)
Feel the Winds centres on the Mediterranean coast ‘Calanques’ of Marseille—its layered histories, diasporic entanglements, and the folkloric presence of the Mistral wind—as a lens to examine themes of climate change, migrational memory and identity. Using montage, overlay and repetition the film creates dreamlike sequences focused around a family playing together in the sea. This work frames the Mediterranean not solely as a site of political contention or ecological crisis, but as a space of possibility, play, community, and transformation. The work utilizes fragments of handheld camera footage, textures and oceanic sounds coupled with unfolding scenes of tenderness that construct new temporalities, drawing on Etel Adnan’s and Simone Fattal’s text: Thus Waves Come in Pairs: Thinking with the Mediterraneans.
Feel the Winds engages with ideas of ‘refugia’ by offering a visual and sonic terrain where Afro-European histories, imagination, and intergenerational memory coalesce—affirming that care and joy are also radical gestures in the face of environmental and social precarity.
Feel the Winds centres on the Mediterranean coast ‘Calanques’ of Marseille—its layered histories, diasporic entanglements, and the folkloric presence of the Mistral wind—as a lens to examine themes of climate change, migrational memory and identity. Using montage, overlay and repetition the film creates dreamlike sequences focused around a family playing together in the sea. This work frames the Mediterranean not solely as a site of political contention or ecological crisis, but as a space of possibility, play, community, and transformation. The work utilizes fragments of handheld camera footage, textures and oceanic sounds coupled with unfolding scenes of tenderness that construct new temporalities, drawing on Etel Adnan’s and Simone Fattal’s text: Thus Waves Come in Pairs: Thinking with the Mediterraneans.
Feel the Winds engages with ideas of ‘refugia’ by offering a visual and sonic terrain where Afro-European histories, imagination, and intergenerational memory coalesce—affirming that care and joy are also radical gestures in the face of environmental and social precarity.
Multi channel video installation work incorporating, film, sculpture and painting