ˈbo͝ozəm (install view)
wallpaper collage, furniture, inherited matrilineal artifacts, found and gifted objects, mixed media collages
shown at Haw Contemporary Crossroads in kansas city, missouri
2019
photos by Silvia Beatriz Abisaab
Representing human experience through the personification of lineage, The Black interior is a space marked with love, mantra, self-healing, matrilineal presence, and culture. Using collage as a metaphor to describe black [her]story, ˈbo͝ozəm presents us with narratives that reference nostalgia as place through spaces that remind us of home. The scenes of life presented in ˈbo͝ozəm are both intimate and deeply subversive, highlighting the desolate truths and overt absences that reside within the presentation of home. The “black interior” challenges the viewer “to see what’s underneath and inside the facades we have willingly and unwillingly worn.”
(excerpt from the Black Interior by Elizabeth Alexander)