I create art to empower, provoke, and illuminate—transforming light and language into tools for visibility and change.
You decide who will appear in Artforum Magazine, take home $25,000, and display their work at The Art of Elysium's Salon!
I love creating work that explores collective experience while challenging the status quo. I often work across photography, painting, sculpture, and installation—sometimes combining them—to explore identity, power, and transformation. I’m drawn to the tension between fragility and strength, where something can feel both vulnerable and intensely charged at the same time.
Where do you find inspiration?Often, my inspiration is a direct and visceral response to what I’m experiencing in real time. My work begins in a deeply personal place and expands outward into collective experience. Through my practice, I seek to reclaim visual space historically defined by patriarchal frameworks, constructing narratives rooted in agency rather than objectification, while amplifying marginalized voices.
What would you do with $25,000?I would invest in developing a new body of work that expands my practice in scale and complexity—creating immersive, materially ambitious works that could exist in a public environment, where they could be experienced by many people over time.
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