Decay. Decaying. Decayed marks an experimental strand of my Live Art practice, where scenographic and performative strategies are used to interrogate the geo-political, psychological, and material dimensions of ‘home’. Through this framework, I construct contexts that are at once social, historical, and economic, situating identity as a site of both inquiry and becoming.
In my practice, the conceptualisation of ‘home’ has remained closely tethered to Algiers, to notions of ‘Algerianity’ and ‘North-African-ness’. My identity, in this sense, has become inseparable from my definition of home. Alongside my own artistic trajectory, I have been deeply influenced by Kader Attia’s work, particularly his articulation of ‘repair’. His attention to processes of societal decomposition resonates with my sustained preoccupation with ‘decay’ and its positionality within a North African postcolonial condition. As a result, my practice has shifted toward an exploration of how ‘home’ and ‘decay’ intersect - a line of research expressed through materiality, embodiment, and performance.