NADA New York 2025

The photos in the series are stills from a video in which the artist replicates the steps taken by enslaved
Africans in Jamaica to create a powder derived from cassava (a naturally poisonous plant
indigenous to the Caribbean) with which to poison slave masters.

Through this work, these steps are reimagined as a recipe passed down from generation to
generation - a transmission from ancestors long gone - for how to assert one’s subjectivity in the
face of an (un)livability that persists in the wake of transatlantic slavery, as described by
academic Christina Sharpe. Turning to forgotten histories of resistance and refusal, the work acts
as a meditation on Black rage, not as something to be choked down and repressed, but as a
generative and liberatory form of affect.

From the full artist statement: In a world characterized by anti-Black violence, where Blackness
is under constant surveillance and consumption, to whom are our feelings of grief and rage – an
affective register whose manifestations are both somatic and psychic, individually and
collectively experienced, material and intangible in nature – truly legible and understood? In
what ways must our rage – this feeling of violent, uncontrollable anger – be deliberately hidden,
veiled, and choked down? In what ways can embracing this rage point us toward alternative
courses of action, ones that create new possibilities for living even as they destroy that which no longer (and never did) serve us?