Nude Me/Under the Skin: The Awakening of Black Women's Visibility, 2019

This piece was part of Art's Territory's, The Palace of Ritual, performance programme delivered as a collateral event during the opening week of the 58th edition of Venice Biennale. Nude Me/Under the Skin: The Awakening of Black Women's Visibility, activated artwork, The Oculus/ The Third Eye with a movement-based piece set to a pre-recorded audio monologue charting 3 generations of black women across the key periods of enslavement, Windrush and present day. The piece represents the forms of bondage that constrict black women and the reckoning needed to release past traumas and arrive at the point of reclamation and awakening,

With thanks to in-kind partners: Freed of London, Sheer Chemistry and Swedish Stockings.

Image credit: Arlene Wandera/ Michal Murawski