RE:presentations

These works are inspired by my own experiences navigating the politics of representation when trying to claim my queer, mixed-race identity. This series is my way of engaging with the inherent bias that occurs when attempting to identify a person, place, or thing. To me, there is an inherent friction in the process that does not account for the roles that exploitative capitalism, war, and patriarchy play within this process and how they have shaped the cultural and social identities we are desperate to celebrate and claim. My work wrestles with these contradictions, in a hope to acknowledge the complexities of holding space for both the positive and negative aspects of history on both an individual and a societal level—further exacerbated by our ever-fracturing online presence. Ultimately, these collages reimagines how to divorce the representation of the self from a dependency on being “recognizable” in ways that align to depict alternative narratives of perception, embodiment, and performativity.