Daiane Rafaela

My degree project weaves together performance, photography and visual arts to navigate personal and collective histories, exploring migration, belonging, borders, and the body as a political territory. Taking a decolonial and poetic approach, I examine displacement, identity and memory, often using ritualistic creative processes as a form of radical tenderness.

For me, home is not a fixed geography but something carried—fluid and shifting, sometimes disappearing before it is even recognised. When physical places become uncertain, the body itself becomes a site of home, a vessel of memory and resilience. My practice maps distances not in kilometres but in memory, tracing the quiet, untranslatable spaces between past and present, departure and arrival, belonging and otherness.