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Taking the dimensions of Harriet Jacobs’ “loophole of retreat” (as described in Chapter 21 of her autobiography Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861) ) as a point of departure, this series of large-scale sculptures are a meditation on (in)visibilty, self-fashioned methods and apparatuses for concealment, and modular minimalist forms. With these sculptures, I am thinking about space and bodies, bodies in space(s), and how the American state contorts and renders Black fugitive people (those who hide from the law, read: whiteness) and their bodies dysmorphic along spatial and psychological registers. The modularity of the sculptures thinks through the permutative practices of hiding, escaping, evading (remembered as seeking air)—at once understanding that there are several possibilities, but wondering about the exhaustive quality of “strategy.” This is an ongoing study.

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Special Thanks:

Harriet Jacobs
Holly Kelly
Jumana Manna
Jesse Green
Sam Kim
Lys Cianci
Olivia Curtis
Pyre Klein
Andrew Steinburg
Melissa Wood Bartholomew
Dumebi Malaika Menakaya
Ella St. Hilaire
Nathalie Attallah