From the artist:
The first death I experienced in my life was a Black woman’s, Miss Annie’s. Her in-home salon was the portal where I first intimately met my Blackness. When she passed, her memory began to fade. When development took her neighborhood, her essence became uprooted from the land. Good Mourning: A Collective Call to Miss Annie is an investigation of how to heal the psychological landscape of geographical trauma through objects and spaces created for collective mourning. Mia Imani is an international interdisciplinary artivist (art + activist) and arts writer based in Berlin, Germany. She creates and curates liminal spaces that invite Black and Brown communities to heal individual and communal trauma through conscious (day-dreaming, visualization) and subconscious (lucid, REM sleep) dreaming. These works aim to center the agency of marginalized communities and use dreams as a portal to manifest alternative past(s), present(s), and future(s). She received her B.A. in Media Communications Studies from the University of Washington and is completing her Master’s in North American Culture and Literature studies at Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany. Website: miaiharrison.com |
Mia Imani
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