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  • Happily Ever After

     

    Happily Ever After (2019) , an installation premiered at the Detroit Art Week – part of ‘Wish Landscape’ solo show, curated by Kasia Sobucka. 

    The work was developed upon performances and public spaces interventions realised during the ‘Illusion of …

    Posted: February 28th, 2018 ˑ  Comments Closed
    Filled under: spatial practice, video
  • Skintight

    ‘Skintight’ (2017) sculpture, 100 x 70 cm

    With affectual discourses remaining the focus of my work, I have also been developing aesthetical methodologies that explore emotive modes of collecting as sites with the potential for critical engagement in the development …

    Posted: January 28th, 2018 ˑ  Comments Closed
    Filled under: spatial practice
  • Vulnerable

    Vulnerable (2017) – a sound installation – is a collection of 142 exchanges with participants telling the artist how to pronounce ‘vulnerable’ properly.  The work reflects upon the relationship between language, power structures, social mobility and vulnerability and it was made …

    Posted: January 28th, 2018 ˑ  Comments Closed
    Filled under: Uncategorized
  • Baby You Deserve

     

    Baby You Deserve (2017), sculpture, 300 cm x 300 cm

    Materials: artificial flowers, oasis funeral letters, holographic dust, atrament blue

     

    yours
    you the winner {×2}
    you know its all yours
    it aint nobody elses baby
    you know its …

    Posted: January 28th, 2018 ˑ  Comments Closed
    Filled under: [ text ]
  • Self-Portrait with Strawberries

    Self – Portrait with Strawberries (2016)

    Video,  03min 38s

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    Posted: January 4th, 2017 ˑ  Comments Closed
    Filled under: Uncategorized
  • Niolam Ja Se Kochaneczke

     

    ‘Niolam Ja Se Kochaneczke’  (2016) film essay explores potentialities of queer utopias, while examining the relationship between history, “national values” and power structures. The work re visits Eastern European folk traditions and whilst employing a contemporary reading questions why queer …

    Posted: September 5th, 2016 ˑ  Comments Closed
    Filled under: Uncategorized
  • Tighten Throat and Butterflies

    ‘Tighten Throat and Butterflies’ (2016) work constitutes of a cake – with writing ‘Everything Will Be Fine’ – placed on a cake stand, on the top of a slightly lopsided pillar.  On the opposite side of the room, above the …

    Posted: August 31st, 2016 ˑ  Comments Closed
    Filled under: Uncategorized
  • Your Dearest Wish.

     

    ‘YOUR DEAREST WISH’ (2016)

    Three channel video installation constituted of six durational videos/performances exploring experience of exhaustion and sense of hope done in collaboration with Project O ( Jamila Johnson – Small and Alexandrina Hemsley) , Aduke King, Romayne …

    Posted: March 24th, 2014 ˑ  Comments Closed
    Filled under: video
  • Once upon a time.

     
    Once Upon A Time  (2013)
     
    Inkjet print, 33 x 46 in
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    Posted: May 19th, 2013 ˑ  Comments Closed
    Filled under: collage
  • A tale of backtracking and looping.

    A tale of backtracking and looping (2014) 

    C-type prints, 40 by 40 in

    In the early stages of my work I explored relational aesthetics and photo-therapy methodologies (as defined by Jo Spence). Aside from the final work – which took …

    Posted: May 18th, 2013 ˑ  Comments Closed
    Filled under: photography