A Place to Be Held
2018 | Site specific installation
A Place to Be Held is a found object sculpture/print collage exploration of how intimate space is structured
in a Black Caribbean context. The way Black homes structure their space can be described as a
collage of the clash and melange of constructions of blackness, class, success, and beauty as
influenced by colonial and anti colonial cultures. Particularly inspired by Port-au-Prince, Haiti, I was
struck by how they city’s space was largely structured in service of survival. Haitians find a way to
construct home spaces regardless– or alternatively, because of– the trauma their land has
endured.
Culmination of a residency in collaboration with AIMCO and The YoungArts Foundation
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Culmination of a residency in collaboration with AIMCO and The YoungArts Foundation
