ashanti Owusu-Brafi
My thesis labor deals with authorship, canon, and decentralization within the proliferated act of self-preservation. I incorporate new media, sculpture and architectural investigations to construct commentary implicating technology’s role in knowledge production. Within my labor I use transdisciplinary approaches to merge mediums in the creation of this environment. My intuitive weavings are a mediation on the repetitive process of meaning-making.
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Courtesy of My Neighbor (When Subaltern is True, Value of Superaltern is Not Validly Deducible), 2021, found painting, found fabric. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman
Broadside, 2021, branch, horse manure. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman
Trust Totem (Generational Trauma Without the Ancestral Knowledge), 2021, animal material, burlap, thread, steel, polycarbonate plastic. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman
Trust Totem (Generational Trauma Without the Ancestral Knowledge) (detail), 2021, animal material, burlap, thread, steel, polycarbonate plastic. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman
Is this a kiss?, 2021, two cow spinal columns, polycarbonate plastic, thread, found metal, screwdriver
Is this a kiss?, 2021, two cow spinal columns, polycarbonate plastic, thread, found metal, screwdriver
The Hanged Fool, 2021. Digital video on monitors. Photo by Robert Chase Heishman