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Liquid tells to melt down back to myself. Performance – 25 min - Ice cube doll house, nails, hammer; sugar, safety pins. 🧊🧊🧊 This auto fictional monologue navigates the fluidity of my Mexican and Reunionese family roots. The narration builds around the element of water, based on the concepts of Hydro Feminism and the Mexica philosophy of happiness trough error acceptance: “Resbaladiza, escuridiza es la tierra.” The tell is accompanied by movement, manipulating an imposing ice cube shaped like a doll house. Towards the end, the house get shattered, as a metaphor of the fragmentation experienced by people in diaspora. With this effort, I search to be channelled trough the discomfort of the cold while compromising to a remembrance act. ———————- This performance was made for the Bubble’s Gunn international performance festival from 2024. I then got the chance to readapt it for the Groom’s Monologue II. Don’t miss it this Friday 15.05.26 with Translocal festival in Berlin!

Congratulations to the Selected Participants for April 2026! Anna Costantino @ancoranessunposto Melissa Antier Cardenas @microbe___ Valentina Del Re @dreel_viennilta We are delighted to announce the selected participants for this month’s Ask The Curator program! 👏✨ A sincere thank you to everyone who applied—your enthusiasm for sharing your work and engaging in critical dialogue demonstrates a strong dedication to growth and professional development. We deeply appreciate the passion and thoughtful perspectives you bring to the field. //////////////////////// 🔎 What is Ask The Curator? This highly selective free monthly program offers artists, curators, researchers, and cultural professionals the opportunity to receive expert curatorial feedback. Each month, up to three applicants are selected for a one-hour review session with Mahzabin Haque, the founder of All About Curating (AAC). Through this program, participants engage in critical discourse, receive professional guidance, and refine their projects or proposals through constructive dialogue. Whether seeking curatorial insights, career advice, or conceptual development, this program provides a valuable opportunity for professional growth. //////////////////////// 💡 Want to be reviewed in May? Applications are now open! Submit yours today for a chance to gain expert feedback. 📩 #AskTheCurator #AllAboutCurating #CuratorialPractice #ArtisticDevelopment #CuratorsOfInstagram #ArtResearch #ProfessionalGrowth

Portrait de Joseph 2026 Grandpa‘s hair felted with Merino Wool, rice grains, onion skin bioplastic, glass. ~45 x 45 cm. À Noël, quand je suis retournée à La Réunion, j’ai coupé les cheveux de Papy Jo. Il s’est trouvé très beau et a même dit qu’il se sentait comme à l’époque de son service militaire. J’ai gardé les cheveux tombés au sol, puis, maintenant que nous sommes à nouveau loin l’un de l’autre, je les ai feutrés pour penser à lui. Je l’ai connecté à ses enfants, petits-enfants et arrière-petits-enfants, la plupart d’entre eux sont à l’île et l’entourent. Moi, j’ai toujours habité en dehors de l’île. Il y a un an, je lui avais déjà écrit un poème en utilisant uniquement des grains de riz pour l’honorer. Je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais les grains de riz me font penser à la patience, et l’une des qualités que j’admire chez mon papy, c’est justement sa patience. J’adore aussi quand il cuisine son riz cantonais. Puis j’ai essayé de recréer un combava ; leur texture cérébrale me fait penser à la mémoire élastique de mon grand-père. Avec ma mamie, ils avaient l’habitude de prendre pleins petites notes dans des petits carnets Clairefontaine. J’ai toujours du mal à leur offrir un livre qu’ils n’aient pas déjà lu. J’aime quand il nous dit qu’on a eu du pot d’avoir voyagé avec ma sœur, et qu’il énnonce des phrases en anglais et en espagnol qu’il a apprises par cœur il y a des décennies. Quand je l’imagine, il porte toujours son polo vert. Quand je ferme les yeux, parfois je l’imagine aussi. Je l’entends doucement traverser la chambre (que l’on appelle chez nous « la chambre de passage ») pour descendre au salon, car il se réveille toujours avant tout le monde.

Portrait de Joseph. 2026 ~45 cm x 45 cm Grandpa’s feted hair, Merino wool, rice, onion skin bioplastic, glass.

Alien mold prototype felted bag.

I am showing my art at Ringbar this Thursday 27th ! 🩷🙂‍↔️ I will show a selection of artworks made in the last 2 years. This body of work mirrors my adaptation process to Berlin, while echoing current topics like the housing crisis, migrational grief, the search for solemnity in the individualist- capitalis western world ! I am super excited because I used to live by the Ringbar and Sonnenale has a spot in my heart . Also this is a pefect ocasion to gather all the people I love in Berlin, and share an artsy evening with tacos !!!

1, 2, 3 x mí y todxs mis amigxs. Natural hand dyed wool, wet and needle felted rug. 2025 Made during my visit at @redlinedenver , supported by the Residency Award 2025 of @thebiennial in collaboration with @salonacme . Videos and pictures by : @world_wide_woolcott  and @gracefriesphoto

1, 2, 3 x mí y todxs mis amigxs. Studio visit with the Culture Hop of @thebiennial at @redlinedenver , and felting process pictures. Natural hand dyed wool, wet and needle felted rug. (Avocado peel and bone, yellow and red onion skin, black beans, cochineal) (Navajo Churro, Corriedale and Perendale wool). 2025 Pictures by : @world_wide_woolcott @gracefriesphoto

1, 2, 3 x mí y todxs mis amigxs. Natural hand dyed wool, wet and needle felted rug. (Avocado peel and bone, yellow and red onion skin, black beans, cochineal) (Navajo Churro, Corriedale and Perendale wool). 2025 Pictures by : @world_wide_woolcott

A month ago I was starting my AIR at Redline Contemporary Art Center in Denver!  Thanks to @sudojane and @leighkargol for welcoming me there, @redlinedenver is truly a gem for community building, pedagogy, art, and culture. You provide all of that in an accessible way; the center is full of kindness. I felt proud to be shortly part of it!  I am very grateful to the @thebiennial for bringing me there and giving me all the support, tools, and resources to develop meaningful connections, learn, experiment, and develop my felting research. You trusted so much in me,  which gave me a lot of confidence. Thanks as well to @salonacme . Hoping that they will continue partnering with residencies. I believe many artists taking part in the salon would be very interested and eager to be part of this type of opportunity.  I hope I will stay connected to all the friendships I developed there. I have to do an honorable mention to @evanrosato , the most mindful and patient friend I could have had in the studio, and @xatruchoconcepts for being the compadre that would take me outside the artsy bubble.  I am very touched by the warmth and generosity that people gave me, and I hope I was able to reciprocate some of this goodness back.   Here is a little list of some artworks, that inspired me during my visit:  „Soy Chicano“, LaloDelgado,  ~1970. Chicanx history at History Colorado Center. La Alma, mural, Emmanuel Martinez, 1978. Learning From the Past, Focused on the Future, Andy Mendoza and Linda Clemente, 1994. Unidos,  mural, Spaik, 2023. Displaced but not Erased, mural,  Silas „Jolt“ Ulibarri, Ezra Herrera, and Coco Nuanes-Ulibarri, 2024. Rosas y Revelaciones exhibit at Museo de las Americas. Lincoln Hills Colorado: An African American Heartbeat, reproduction of quilt, 2009, Judy Haslee Scott. Common Ground: Culture Isn’t Black and White, 2020, Jamie Okuma. Blanket, unknown Diné artist, before 1940. Spider woman at the studio of @jcbl1 .

And here it is! Very happy about the release of this very special project! So many awesome people involved, go check it out! Melissa Antier Performance, Costumes , Set design, Artworks Karine Bravo Concept, Camera, Editing, Color Grading Philipp Gropper Saxophone Feature Arthur Kohlhaas Composition, Saxophones, Production, Sound design Florian Müller Arrangement, Double Bass, Electric Bass Simon Lucaciu Rhodes, Synth Lukas Heckers Drums, Percussion Timm Weber Mix, Master Marcel Aue Recording at Behind The Plane Studio Thanks to Zimmt Leipzig, Peter Reinbothe #outnow #releaseday #collab #improvisedmusic #electronicmusic #musicvideo

Do you feel it yet? Just one more week until the release! Just so happens that we’re also playing a Concert on the 15th, so come by to get the full experience ;) #musicvideo #newmusic #wetfelting #videography #liveconcert #collab #featuring #electronicmusic