‘Memoria’ was developed over eight years in New Orleans. It reflects on the artist’s identity as a Black French woman through the lens of another Black diasporic experience: a Mardi Gras Indians Queen. Their voice introduces the traditions and history of this African American cultural practice, which is rooted in community resilience, memory and resistance. The installation combines personal footage – filmed across the city – with testimonial narration, transforming everyday moments into a contemplative visual meditation. Suspended between documentary observation and poetry, the work explores how artistic archives, cultural memory and testimony shape belonging across diasporic histories.