April 2025, live performance

Résumé: The piece explores complicity, performative gestures, and institutional failure, while affirming the role of art as a tool for protest and social transformation.

Materials: DIY wedding gown, 3-meter hand-painted cape made from repurposed bedsheets, sewn rice weights, red fabric paint

Themes: Human rights, decoloniality, institutional critique, art as activism, performativity, protest, solidarity, student organizing, symbolic action.

Concept: The act of walking down the aisle, a familiar ritual of union, was subverted to highlight the contradiction of being both a part of, and critical of, an institution (Concordia University) that fails to reflect the ethical demands of its student body. The cape, weighted with rice and hand-painted in red with specific calls for divestment, made the protest physically and visually heavy. This burden metaphorically reflected the emotional and political weight carried by students demanding justice, and of Palestinians fighting for their land. By referencing the performative expectations of both protest and gender roles, the piece invited viewers to reconsider the spectacle of resistance within institutional spaces.

Security guards (around 5 of them, watched me climb the stairs). I left the veil hanged on the stairs, which they gave back to me, without the metal pole that was part of the bottom as it was deemed to be a dangerous object.