I am an interdisciplinary artist who employs drawing, installation , and sculpture to create conceptual work that explores interstitial subjectivity through an engagement with both intimate and public archives, as well as Black spatiality and forms of resistance. My research-driven practice is organized around two interrelated praxes: The Archive as Threshold / Site of Disturbance, and Migration as Refuge / Refusal.
The Archive as threshold/ as site of disturbance- I interrogate the archive as a stifling container: an organizing force that attempts to fix and preserve the living, breathing, shifting body of time (past, present, and future). I ask questions such as how might we reanimate the complexities embedded within this interior body? How can we breach the rigid contours of its encasement?
Migration as refuge, as refusal- I explore how notions of identity are disrupted by migration—particularly migration as an unfinished arc of motion whose final resting point remains an open-ended question. My creative process begins through the interrogation of my own (racialized as black, gendered as man) body, and the personal memories that are embedded within it. I use this archive as my entry point into collective political interrogations.