Yana Nafysa Dombrowsky M’Baye

Through moving image and installation, Yana Nafysa Dombrowsky M’Baye questions the material and immaterial conditions through which belonging is shaped and experienced. Her practice is grounded in iterative, ritualistic process of thinking through making, where research, gesture and image evolve in close relation. Drawing on genealogical and archival fragments, she constructs narratives that move between speculation and poetic form. Attentive to colonial and diasporic histories, she asks how the intercultural body navigates an inheritance that is unfixed and fragmented, and how historical complexity and cultural incompleteness might act as mediums from which critical, self-preserving narratives emerge.

With the support of Creative New Zealand and the Office for Contemporary Art Aotearoa