I work from absence.

Not as a void to be filled, but as an immaterial material.

My work stems from four cultural heritages — Vendéen, Breton, Kabyle, and Tunisian — present in my family history but never fully transmitted. Born in France, my parents grew up at a distance from these heritages;  I was born in Paris, into that distance, one generation further still. This cumulative generational distance is at the core of my practice: creating memory from absence, rather than from direct transmission.

My work is born from interrupted transmissions. From these absences, I create sensory counter-archives and imaginary territories where mythologies, ancestral knowledges and popular cultures become vessels of memory and care.

My practice spans painting, sculpture, installation, performative devices and experimental writing — spaces of in-between, suspended between materiality and the invisible. It rests on the accumulation and gleaning of symbolic materials — water, salt, sugar, lead, textiles, photographs — and of interrupted feminine knowledges: pottery, weaving, oral poetry, recipes. These elements become living archives, connecting humans and non-humans across multiple temporalities and spaces.

What I seek is an act of transformission* : to transform in order to transmit, to transmit through transformation. My research explores the Amazigh* mythological figures of Anzar* (rain deity) and the protective ogress Teryel* as living systems of thought, whose reinterpretation opens ecofeminist perspectives on the relationships between bodies, territories and the forces of the living. Each work enacts a désarchivage* (unarchiving) — a counter-archiving: reactivating what has been erased and setting in motion unarchived gestures, objects and figures as forms of alternative knowledge.

My practice sits at the intersection of intimate narrative and critical inquiry, seeking to recompose the memories of the invisible into neo-rituals, giving shape to possible futures.

‍Anysia, June 2026

The terms marked with *are defined in the glossary.