Transponder

Three men—from China, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Palestine—live together in a squatted apartment in a seemingly abandoned building in Paris. The group is bound together by their shared experience of life in exile and the fleeting nature of their possessions, relationships, and sense of home, but the temporary safe space is threatened by outside forces and events.

The looks of a character of mixed ethnicities are continuously changing: hair and skin colour shift, intersect and alternate each other, creating a choreography of looks and poses based on representations throughout art-history and pop culture.