As part of my residency at Ethereal Maison Gallery, I’m researching wearable technologies for performance to explore the transient nature of home and reflect on my nomadic experience.
In January 2025, I began a six-month residency at the gallery, located in a building that once served as Tower Hamlets’ housing advice office. This setting inspired a personal exploration of displacement and the meaning of “home” through the lens of my own migration story. Growing up between Sicily and Malta, and now living in London—where I’ve moved nine times in five years—I reflect on how constant relocation has shaped my identity, and how it challenges ideas of nationality and belonging.
Early in the residency, I documented the act of unpacking—a ritual repeated at each move—using stop-motion animation. In this piece, my bedroom transforms into a temporary shrine, drawing on Sicilian religious imagery and tradition.
More recently, I used 3D scanning and computer vision to recreate one of my previous bedrooms as an interactive virtual space. Within this environment, I engage with the digital room in real time; As I move, the space shifts and retreats—becoming unstable and unreachable—capturing the tension between comfort and impermanence.
This is an ongoing project. I’m currently developing wearable elements to interact with projections in a physical space, continuing to explore how technology can embody the emotional experience of displacement.
