Visual culture and design research
Conference-performance
Departing from Sara Ahmed's essay "In the name of love", In the name of ♥︎ is a research publication exploring the history and politics of the heart symbol. The heart is often described as a universal symbol for love, yet its history suggests otherwise. The publication investigates its use in social media and the propagation of hate speech, examining how affective language, care narratives, and emotional aesthetics operate in contemporary communication. What messages circulate under the appearance of affection? Published by Onomatopee (192), it was part of a collective exhibition at Dutch Design Week 2020.
Since 2025, the performance of the same name combines visual presentation and archives. Lecture, music and images work together to move between explanation and collective listening.
Presented at:
- La
Maison des Métallos, Paris, France, as part of Art Émergence, curated by Flora Fettah, Assia Ugobor and Lamia Zanna.
- Mostra’m as part of Mostra Festival, at Casa Montjuïc in Barcelona, Spain.
- Encoooore Art Gallery in Biarritz, France
Published by:
Onomatopee (192)
Regard exterieur:
Flora Fettah
Interview:
Coeval Magazine
Hackaton, Creative coding
A hackathon for coders, designers and artists at Reaktorhallen, the first nuclear reactor hall of Sweden. 25 meters underground, we worked on solutions to bridge design, coding and live music.
Video making, creative coding
As part of ongoing research on photomorphing, time warp, and randomness, this work combines film photography with shifting color channels, layered effects, and scripts created in After Effects. This research served as the foundation for the visual work developed for Piricho.
Illustration, Mapping video
The illustration made of gradients, light, and overlapping forms was transposed as a video mapping installation. In a collaboration with Claire Bonnet and interior designer Manon Portera, combining projection mapping and set design, the installation explored how graphic design can work in space, interacting with different objects and materials.
Mapping video, Modeling
Iannis Xenakis was an artist, composer, architect, engineer, and mathematician (1922, Romania – 2001, Paris). Hommage à Iannis Xenakis is a visual project created as a conclusion to my research on his work.
I built a wooden and tracing-paper model of the Philips Pavilion designed by Xenakis. Alongside this, I collected his sketches and visual studies, adding my own drawings to adapt them in Modul8 and create visual loops.