A sculptural exploration of surrealist gender-bending Afro-futurism by Soulé Déesse
Take a walk through Soulé Déesse’s magical Afrolandscape—an interactive environment in which mobile sculptures hanging from reclaimed Afro hair morph seamlessly into gender-fluid shapes and motion capture technology creates an endlessly shifting soundspace that casts a spell on the visitor and releases the powers that lie dormant within them as within any material—and let yourself be moved.
This work was made possible through the B2 Creative Residency Program. Learn more here.
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About the Artist
Soule Deesse's practice moves effortlessly between painting and site-specific installation, incorporating sculpture, video drawing and painting, expertimental sound, film, and performance. Her work is a meditation on the power of imagery and object-making to represent trauma and death, the state of the world, and the Black utopia of Futurafrique. It draws on the esoteric spirituality and magic of her Afro-Caribbean lineage to address the polictics and aesthetics of geographical and social displacement and the evolving realities of identity perception.
Deesse's work, solo and in collaboration, has been exhibited in the Middle East, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
For Hermafrodek, Déesse's collaborators include Brad Gallagher as technical art director, Andy DiLallo as sound designer and technical support, and Gary McCrumb as lighting designer and audio engineer.