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I define my practice as Afrobaroque: rooted in the vision and practice of Afrofuturism, my work is a commentary on our human and post-human identity and the future of race and sexuality. It breaks down aesthetic and stylistic boundaries—it also breaks down cultural and religious barriers and promotes the affective connection among humans regardless of race, gender, class, and language. It draws on the esoteric spirituality and magic of my Beninese-Togolese-Haitian-Jamaican lineage to address the politics and aesthetics of geographical and social displacement, the complexities of pain, memory, and place, and the evolving realities of identity perception. I am interested in the power of imagery and object-making to represent trauma and death and the state of the world as observed through the eyes of an Afro-Caribbean woman: as it recounts my own story of isolation and exile, my practice aspires to be a meditation on the very act of storytelling, a giant experiment in human telekinesis.
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