DISPLAYCED

Collective

Members - Halar Soomro, Helena & Maya Sfaltou
Maastricht
Formed - April 2024

Maya Sfaltou (Top left), Helena (Bottom left) & Halar Soomro (Right).
Photo by Nikita Dyatlov

_{^{Images from Displayced Performances

by Nikita Dyatlov}}

_{It’s a practice. A way of working that stays tender, even when the questions are hard. We don’t answer. We try to create a presence by holding care and dialogue as virtues. We stay with the mess, and sometimes, we turn it into something you can walk into.}

_{Halar Soomro, Helena, and Maya Sfaltou, came together to create DISPLAYCED. We met eachother at art school in Maastricht and found a shared urgency in exploring what it means to belong}

_{Photo by Nikita Dyatlov}

_{It started as a response to personal experiences of migration and memory, cultural friction, and non-human species. Not just borders or visas, but the slower displacements: language loss, cultural drift, memories that don’t have names in the places we live now.

We build things together including installations, performances, gatherings - to hold space. To map what it feels like to be elsewhere, and still be here.}

^{_{Images from DISPLAYCED Community Dinner
08.10.25 at B32 Arspace
Photos by Nikita Dyatlov}}

_{^{Images from Opening of The Post Office - 04.10.25 at De Melkammer
Photos by Halar Soomro}}

_{DISPLAYCED speaks to the condition of displacement - of people and non-human animals alike. It refers to being unrooted, misplaced, or removed from a familiar environment and forced to adapt elsewhere. This experience often stems from being “othered,” excluded from a space or community. Most of us have felt this in some form; it’s a point of emotional connection and a space for reflection on who we are, and how we belong within society.

PLAY - We explore conflict through play. In our practice, play becomes a way to hold difficult experiences ike displacement - in a tangible, accessible form. It offers a soft entry point into hard conversations. We invite the audience to join us in this play: to step into someone else’s experience, to embody “the other,” and to explore together what it means to belong or not.}

_{^{Images from Opening of DISPLAYCED Installations

11.10.25 at the Sustainability Hub
Photos by Halar Soomro}}