This series questions the notion of identity through those of itinerant women, unveiled through the gesture of their hands. We explore the possibilities of perceiving and being perceived by the Other. 

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I start by telling the story of my own kind, of my migrant community and of this ethnic cultural gap from which I come. It is the point of departure in the exploration of nature, structure and moments of identity. A holistic approach to these portraits is generated by integrating alternative dimensions; the digital, sociological and even the poetic.

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7 doyennes of exile are portrayed. 7 lives seen from the perspective of their identity. 7 symbolic figures oscillating between devout and pagan. An unequivocal ritual was established and respected; each of the 7 doyennes were interviewed, photographed, sketched, engraved in materials, exploring the language of their hands and emotions. Different materials and devices compete to reveal the various dimensions, traces of their lives, their voices and eventually the allegorical use of shadows; the double of the physical, mental and emotional body. 

Visitors are invited to approach, grab or graze the portraits with their own hands, provoking these projections and collisions between the sculpture and the Other. This exchange completes the form of the object in question. Touching, altering and then allowing themselves to be altered by the Other as they abandon physical and cultural barriers, as they grasp the interference, graze the edges, trigger a sonoric landscape in the wake of digital turbulence to « track» the illuminating source in the obscurity.