Reframing Black identity through image, ritual, and critical inquiry.
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Exhibits
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ICARUS
Montresso Art Foundation
Marrakech, 2026
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God Snapped When She Made Water... and Black Women
Arthur Roger Gallery
New Orleans, 2026
Past Projects
THEY WE DIDN’T REALIZE WE WERE SEEDS
We Didn’t Realize We Were Seeds draws from diasporic histories of displacement and discovery, reflecting on the ways Black communities have continually produced life, culture, and possibility under conditions designed to suppress them.
END OF SAFETY
Caught between visibility and threat, End of Safety explores social contradictions embedded in our sense of self. Inspired by the powerful wisdom of James Baldwin, the series confronts the illusory nature of comfort and safety as it pertains to Black life.
If Heaven Had Heights explores Black autonomy, aspiration, and refusal through the lens of oppositional style and cultural expression. Drawing from hip-hop’s long tradition of critique, the project examines how everyday acts of defiance disrupt the politics of respectability while asserting the right to self-definition.
IF HEAVEN HAD HEIGHTS
TRAPADEMIA™
Operating at the intersection of street epistemology and institutional knowledge, the works in Trapademia™ consider “the trap” as a site of intellectual production; lived, embodied, and continuously innovating outside the sanctioned boundaries of formal education.
GRAVITY
Gravity examines sagging as a charged visual language, one that exists at the nexus of style, surveillance, and resistance. What is often dismissed as deviance is revealed here as an oppositional aesthetic, a refusal to conform to the rigid codes of respectability imposed on Black bodies.
Press
“Pecou confronts stereotypes of black males in order to demonstrate that a black man can be both authentic and heady, and overcome the burden of those stereotypes.”
Media
Through paintings, performance art, and academic work, Pecou confronts the social construct of Black masculinity and Black identity, challenging and expanding the reading, performance, and expressions of Blackness. This exhibition surveys his recent bodies of work End of Safety, Real Negus Don’t Die, and We Didn’t Realize We Were Seeds and debuts a multichannel video installation featuring his short Afro-Surrealist film The Store.
Video Credit: Frist Art Museum