"I grew up listening to stories of departures and people leaving home searching for a better future. Moroccans in Europe bear a double burden. They have suffered racism, bigotry, and Islamophobia since childhood. And still: we try to juggle between finding a place of belonging in our birth countries without discarding our heritage....By questioning myself and my experiences on my own terms, I hope to move away from simplistic narratives and instead depict the complexities and nuances of migrant identities."
"Her practice uses photography and archival material to question how histories are preserved or silenced, while creating new visual languages that embrace absence, resilience, and survival. Through symbols, text, and image collages, a poetic approach emerges to entangle these issues. My aim with the project is not to tell that this is the diasporic identity or to provide a linear story. But to take the viewer on a journey without clear answers but instead ambiguous questions."
A lens-based project examines challenges of displacement experienced by third-generation migrants navigating Dutch and Moroccan Amazigh heritage. The work investigates spaces where cultures overlap, conflict, and fracture while uncovering hidden narratives of belonging and erasure. Photography and archival material are used to question how histories are preserved or silenced and to create visual languages that embrace absence, resilience, and survival. The series 'Maktub' arises from frustration and contemplation of الغربة (Al-Ghorba), translated as being away from home, and traces estrangement mixed with nostalgia. The project rejects simplistic or linear narratives, using symbols, text, and image collages to pose ambiguous questions and invite reflective journeys.
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