PROJ

The Influx of Discourse, 2024, began as a shared question—how does power shape what can be said, and by whom? In a collective body of voices—twelve women from different geographies, perspectives, and practices—brought into dialogue through months of study, conversation, and making, my role was activator, mediator, co-creator and curator.My practices toward words and collective handwriting triggered and activated the “yellow room,” an installation part of the 2024 project. Collectively created texts, assembled by Michan Pour-Azar, Mikaela Montenegro,Debora Rayel Eva, Clarice Sanvicente, and me.

We gathered around Michel Foucault’s The Order of Discourse as a starting point. The text became a mirror, a challenge, and a thread—helping us trace how discourse functions as a tool of control, shaping bodies, silencing voices, and constructing identities. We reflected on how those forces have moved through our own lives—especially as women—and how we might respond with gestures and materials as forms of resistance.

Video piece, integrating the “yellow room” installation, collectively produced, edited by Fábia Bercsek.

The Influx of Discourse is a gathering of voices—ours, and those we carry with us. It’s an invitation to listen differently, to feel the edges of what is allowed to be said, and to imagine how art can move us beyond those limits.