Dressing is never neutral. It is a negotiation shaped by fear, desire, memory, and refusal. In this
exhibition, clothing becomes a strategy of survival, not performance, but a lived response to systems
of control.
Through photography, sculpture, and text, I Dress, Therefore I Disrupt explores the politics of
appearance under postmigrant conditions. The garments are not curated for spectacle; they emerge
from daily life, from moving through checkpoints, institutions, and borders. Dressing becomes a
tactical act: to signal or obscure, to pass or to resist. Drawing on Édouard Glissant’s notion of
opacity, the right not to be fully known, I refuse the demand for clarity. I do not dress to be
understood. I dress to remain complex, to inhabit presence on my own terms.
