Groundless

Groundless, 2026

Site-specific installation, Cité internationale des arts, Paris. Developed during the residency, following the project Des traces.

Groundless brings together works from the project des traces alongside a site-specific installation developed through ongoing research into traces of the Crimean Tatar language in Paris.

The project extends a trajectory that unfolds across earlier bodies of work. While Des traces focused on disappearing geographies and shifted this investigation toward language—exploring its presence through archival fragments and its gradual erasure. Groundless continues this line of inquiry in spatial form.

Fragments of landscape and traces of words appear unsettled, no longer fully anchored. The central installation—suspended, without ground—evokes a condition of living in between: between places, languages, and temporalities. It reflects experiences of displacement marked by instability, disorientation, and the absence of a fixed point of belonging. At the same time, this suspended state carries an ambivalent quality—a certain lightness, even a quiet beauty, of being held momentarily outside of defined structures.

The work resonates with what might be understood as a “grey zone”: a space shaped not by active conflict, but by its lingering effects. Here, presence remains partial, and belonging is continuously renegotiated through distance, memory, and shifting forms of attachment.