My Beauty Is The Beauty Of The Other(ed) Places (2022-2023)
Shadow Songs I (2022)
Shadow Songs II (2022)
Shadow Songs III (2022)
My Beauty Is The Beauty Of The Other(ed) Places (2022-2023) looks at East African adornment rituals, using fabric, jewelry and ritualistic devices to reimagine new and equitable aesthetic and sartorial futures in the Horn of Africa. It looks at the ways in which we are able to simulate remembering, the ways in which we are misremembered, the ways in which we account for the omission of bodies & histories deemed peripheral; irredeemable. I am interested in studying the silences that exist in language, what they represent, what is being omitted, what is unsayable. Each of the works in this project were created during the time I spent in residency at Black Rock Senegal (July-September 2022).
Medium: Self-portrait photography
Size: Variable
Year of completion: 2023
Additional Information: Exhibition view from Utopias, Lahti Biennale, Lahti Finland 2023 curated by Henri Airo.
Installation: Wood structure dimensions 220cm x 250cm made from site residues/ surplus wooden products. Three smaller smaller self portraits (red backdrop, white painted eyes and golden headpiece) dimensions 40cm x65cm inkjet printed on Nautilus Classic offset recycled paper
Self portrait with golden backdrop & golden veil made from coins dimensions 70 cm x 80 cm inkjet printed on Nautilus Classic offset recycled paper.
Self portrait in the back of the room made up of a diffused red backdrop x full face painted with sewing machine is a sublimation print on white 210gsm recycled polyester fabric. Dimensions 160 x 200cm
Macawis fabrics printed onto white 210gsm recycled polyester fabric in red and blue and white motifs. Dimensions 100cm x 20cm