FALL RESIDENCY SHOWCASE 2022

Jamila Brown is a curator and interdisciplinary artist currently working in mixed media collage and fibers. She received her BFA in Photography with a dual minor in Art History and Journalism from University of North Carolina–Charlotte. In her work, Brown mines visual material, uniting scattered pieces to re-member and re-configure new worlds and revere imagined ancestral forces.

She first grew akin to the introspection and exploration of self-portraiture in her undergraduate studies, and now uses her own body as a site to process, reveal, and reflect the collective body of the world(s). The work she presents in this showcase examines the interrelationship between the body and technology, both slippery systems bearing the possibility of glitch or error. This malleability of the machine is embodied in her forms that depict a birth, a rise into power and the inevitable fall or system failure. As this story plays on, she translates feelings of vulnerability in feeling observed by both the beholder and her embodied ancestral guides and otherworldly watchers nearby. Weaving in holy texts, Afro-Futurism, her intensive research and imaginings as guideposts, Brown creates space for re-memory of the past, reckoning with the present, and a re-creation of the New.