Yana Nafysa Dombrowsky-M’Baye is a pluridisciplinary researcher based in Paris, from Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. Her matrilineal ancestry returns to Senegal and France, while her patrilineal lineage is of Polish and Czech descent.
Through iterative and ritualistic processes, Yana’s practice centers on a materially grounded, speculative line of questioning. Through the specific context of her heritage, she asks how the intercultural body navigates an inheritance that is unfixed and fragmented, and how historical complexity and cultural incompleteness can act as mediums from which critical, self-preserving narratives emerge.
Through iterative and ritualistic processes, Yana’s practice centers on a materially grounded, speculative line of questioning. Through the specific context of her heritage, she asks how the intercultural body navigates an inheritance that is unfixed and fragmented, and how historical complexity and cultural incompleteness can act as mediums from which critical, self-preserving narratives emerge.