As an Italian Angolan artist residing in the South of France, my work is largely based on anonymous photography, documents, stamps and bills found in Portuguese markets during my travels, but also in family archives and stories. My practice explores the tension between intimate and historical memory, with a particular focus on the historical relationship between Angola and Portugal. Working with both personal and colonial archives, I reflect on how identities are shaped through displacement, inheritance, and the fragility of memory. Through photography, textiles, installations, and found objects, I try to bring visibility to narratives tied to my own diasporic experience and intergenerational transmission: how can memory be both collective and personal. I’m drawn to the poetic potential of the archive: how a photograph, a piece of fabric, or a shared meal can become a quiet act of resistance, a gesture of care, or a container of memory. In my work, the kitchen, the body, and photography become ways of telling stories or reinventing them, as well as how black communities create their own sense of belonging in a post-colonial Angola. My approach is both sensitive and political, attentive to the historical and intersectional weight of images and the contexts in which they circulate.