It is usually assumed that a sense of place or belonging gives a person stability. But what makes a place home? How to define an identity when on the move? How visible are the scars left by fleeing?

Over the past ten years I've lived in three continents, adopted different languages and had dozens of addresses, the only permanent ones being virtual ones. "Being a foreigner but not always feeling like one" has become my modus vivendi.

"Displacements" was born from my perception of how much my privileged mobility had affected my ways of being and acting in this world and from my desire to share my experience with people that, differently from me, were forced to abandon their homelands. How does displacement shape our relation with space and others? How does one not lose oneself in this search for a safe place? How visible are the scars left from fleeing?

Moved by the belief that art can be a tool for communication, I have developed "Displacements" as a collaborative project focused on the experience of refugees living in different situations. Between 2001 and 2004 I shared my every day with refugees living in Johannesburg (South Africa), in a Refugee Shelter in Massy (France) and at Kakuma Refugee Camp (Kenya).

As an interactive observer I hope to be a link between the people I'm working with and others that don't know them. By transposing refugees' voices into the artistic realm I try to reintegrate them in a social web from which they are usually isolated. By telling their experience of displacement and by enumerating their hopes and losses, sometimes in a voice deprived of any emotion, these voices try to echo in the sensitivity of each of their listeners. It is in this exchange of sensitivities that I believe; in the creation of a space where personal stories lead to a better understanding of a social issue, without distance and without stereotypes, fraternally.

Learn more about the project on: http://www.displacements.info and http://www.percursos.org