Gravity
Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia
Art Basel, Miami, Fl
2014
2015
Gravity examines the politics of visibility, control, and resistance as they are inscribed upon Black bodies. Moving through tensions between perception and self-definition, the work considers how identity is shaped by forces that seek to regulate its expression. Figures exist within a constant negotiation, between constraint and autonomy, projection and self-possession.
Gravity operates here as both literal and metaphorical force: the weight of history, the pull of expectation, and the pressure to conform. Yet within this tension, the work locates a subtle defiance; an insistence on self-determined presence that resists containment. In this way, Gravity becomes a meditation on the conditions that attempt to hold Black life in place, and the persistent effort to move beyond them.