In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges is an immersive installation created for the 15th edition of the Sharjah Biennial. This project consists of three ceramic busts set in a sea of blue sand amidst freestanding faux boulders and surrounded by a 2100 sq. ft. immersive wall painting. This surreal landscape is accompanied by an original soundscape composed by Chris Pattishall and encircled by 8 large-scale diptychs that combine cyanotype and watercolor processes. The total work is an homage to the trickster and shapeshifter figures that interrupt legibility and corrupt the colonial imaginary.
In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges, installation view, 2023
Three Secrets of a Tsunami, 2022, 36 x 24 x 24 inches, ceramic, gold leaf, epoxy, spray foam, acrylic paint
Three Secrets of a Tsunami, 2022, 36 x 24 x 24 inches, ceramic, gold leaf, epoxy, spray foam, acrylic paint
Three Secrets of a Tsunami, 2022, 36 x 24 x 24 inches, ceramic, gold leaf, epoxy, spray foam, acrylic paint
Three Secrets of a Tsunami, 2022, 36 x 24 x 24 inches, ceramic, gold leaf, epoxy, spray foam, acrylic paint
A Fugitive Sun, 2022, 24 x 18 x 18 inches, ceramic, gold leaf, epoxy
A Fugitive Sun, 2022, 24 x 18 x 18 inches, ceramic, gold leaf, epoxy
Three Questions of a Tsunami, 2022, 36 x 24 x 24 inches, ceramic, epoxy, acrylic paint
Three Questions of a Tsunami, 2022, 36 x 24 x 24 inches, ceramic, epoxy, acrylic paint
Three Questions of a Tsunami, 2022, 36 x 24 x 24 inches, ceramic, epoxy, acrylic paint
In The Dark, We Lose Our Edges, installation view, 2023
A Temporary Understanding of John W. Cooper, 2022, 72 x 72 inches each work, watercolour, ink and cyanotype on paper
A Temporary Understanding of Octavia Butler, 2022, 72 x 72 inches each work, watercolour, ink and cyanotype on paper
A Temporary Understanding of Ellen Craft, 2022, 72 x 72 inches each work, watercolour, ink and cyanotype on paper
A Temporary Understanding of Yma Sumac, 2022, 72 x 72 inches each work, watercolour, ink and cyanotype on paper
A Temporary Understanding of Samuel. R Delany, 2022, 72 x 72 inches each work, watercolour, ink, collage and cyanotype on paper
A Temporary Understanding of Kool Keith 2022, 72 x 72 inches each work, watercolour, ink, collage and cyanotype on paper
A Temporary Understanding of Grace Jones, 2022, 72 x 72 inches each work, watercolour, ink and cyanotype on paper
A Temporary Understanding of John the Conqueror, 2022, 72 x 72 inches each work, watercolour, ink and cyanotype on paper