SOULÉ DÉESSE
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    • paperbag test documentary diaristic-style videos 2012-2022
    • paper bag test: white noise (2012-)
    • paperbag test portraits 2011-2022
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Media: rabbit skin glue, synthetic water-soluble polyvinyl acetate emulsion, dry paint pigment for both the egg tempera, encaustic and oil paint.

Blingblingguninthebaggie (2013) explore the era of Blaxploitation films and the impact it had within the Caribbean communities through the eyes of my heroines, Queen Nappy and YoYo Yolanda. These two characters are based, respectively, on the well-known 19th-century stereotypes of Sapphire, the wise-cracking, emasculating woman, who lets everyone know she is in charge, and Jezebel, the bad girl, who is usually depicted as alluring and seductive as she mesmerizes men and lures them into her bed. In this body of work I combine text, images and symbols from the Caribbean with imagery from African-American popular culture and themes. A fusion of painting, photography and printmaking, the imagery speaks directly to post-soul aesthetic themes within the Hip Hop community: for instance, bling is a slang reference to elaborate jewelry and ornamented accessories popularized by the hip-hop culture, whereas baggie is Jamaican slang for underwear.





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  • home
  • projects
    • hermafrodek: op.1 no.2 interactive & immersive environment 2022
    • hermafrodek op.1 no.1 2015-2021
    • new pantheon 2022-
    • grandmé 2021
    • the dwellers 2021-22
    • the messengers 2021
    • we are the same under the sky 2020
    • unhidden graves 2019
    • passepartout: afrolandscape (2019-)
    • je suis ce que je suis 2018
    • words become butterflies 2017
    • dance with me 2016
    • vagabonds of the caribbean 2013
    • blingblingguninthebaggie 2013
    • paperbag test documentary diaristic-style videos 2012-2022
    • paper bag test: white noise (2012-)
    • paperbag test portraits 2011-2022
    • pain/T 2000-2015
  • about
    • artist statement
    • bio
  • contact
    • contact