The Shapes of Sugar

The Shapes of Sugar is both a personal journey and a visual inquiry: it reflects on colonial heritage, ancestral memory, and the construction of self through practice. I am Franco-Mauritian. I grew up with my French family and never felt connected to my Mauritian roots. When I began working with sugar, exploring its materiality and possibilities, I discovered that this practice became a way to reconnect with Mauritius, its history, culture, and the parts of my heritage I had long felt distant from. Mastering the technique of sugar sculpture required time, attention, curiosity, and patience. In learning to shape and control this fragile, elusive material, I also began to confront and understand the blurred, unknown parts of my origins