Side specific Installation, 2025, Residue of W green road and light
This installation consists of urban traces I collected during a week of night walks. Taking place along the W Green Road route between Seven Sisters Station and 55 Avenue (my home), these walks were shaped by my habit of looking down due to the unease I often experience as a woman. This habit evolved into a practice of noticing and collecting small things, which gradually turned into a game. The rule of this game was simple to notice and gather all the fragments I could see and carry over the course of the week. As part of the installation, I also included a soft vocal element — a song I often found myself humming quietly when fear arose during my walks. This hum, blending with the ambient city noise, forms a subtle soundscape that accompanies the fragments on the gallery floor. It was my way of protecting myself, a personal rhythm woven into the rhythm of the city. The collected fragments are spread across the gallery floor and transformed by moving night lights projected onto them. The lights and shadows reshape the installation with each participant’s movements. In this way, the objects and their entangled beings are constantly redefined, producing new relations each time.This installation is the first gesture of an ongoing research — a practice I intend to repeat , discover and expand in every city I inhabit, as a way of continually rediscovering what the city hides beneath our feet. And also try different way of displaying/working.
