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Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB)
Single Black Femme (I Am My Own Institution)
5 July - 25 August 2024
Weston Studio | Burlington House
Tues–Sun: 10am–6pm
Fri: 10am–9pm
Free
no booking required
Rashayla Marie Brown (RMB) presents new works in photography, assemblage, performance, and legal contracts made during her time as Starr Fellow in the RA Schools.
RMB highlights the entanglement between excellence, danger, desire, and mysticism in the pursuit of Black femme singularity. She combines references to modernist painting and surrealist film history with portrayals of self-made women who invoke obsession in others. Within the installation is a contract between RMB and the Guinness World Record holder for largest daguerreotype alongside a performance-test addressed to the local art "community."
RMB is an “undisciplinary” artist who changes narratives of power and access through aesthetics, satire, and ethics. A practitioner of Lukumí and Buddhism, her artworks often blur the lines between forms to contradict the hierarchies that they allow to persist.
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