A metal structure engraved with a snake eating its own tail

Kearra Amaya Gopee, "pappyshow in the dark time, my love," 2022; three-channel projection, iron, aluminum, chain mail, wood, subwoofers, mixer, amplifier, PA speakers; dimensions variable.

Kearra Amaya Gopee

New York; Trinidad and Tobago
Interdisciplinary
Artist in Residence, 2023
↗ www.kearramaya.com

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Artist Statement

I am an anti-disciplinary visual artist from Carapichaima, Kairi (the larger of the twin-island nation known as Trinidad and Tobago), living on Lenape land (New York). Through video, sculpture, sound, and writing, I identify both violence and time as primary conditions that undergird the anti-Black world in which I work: a world that I am intent on working against through myriad collective interventions. My process functions as a vehicle for strategizing other possible lives with the people I love across the diasporas they belong to. In the spirit of maroonage, I have been developing an artist residency in Trinidad titled a small place, after Jamaica Kincaid’s book of the same name. 

 

While at Headlands

While at Headlands, I will be pursuing both my video and material practices as well as my research into artist residencies.

 

Artist portrait by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr.
Selected Work
A projection on a hanging screen with a white to red gradient, and text that reads
Kearra Amaya Gopee, "an excision spell," 2020; single-channel projection; dimensions variable.
A metal staircase on casters covered in fake plants, with a video monitor set underneath
Kearra Amaya Gopee, "how to break a horizon: a memory as retold by the sum of its residue," 20019; single-channel video, collapsible metal staircase; dimensions variable.
A room with video projections on three walls depicting a person and folded arms, with a metal sculpture in the center
Kearra Amaya Gopee, "pappyshow in the dark time, my love," 2022; three-channel projection, iron, aluminum, chain mail, wood, subwoofers, mixer, amplifier, PA speakers; dimensions variable.
A gilt-frame mirror on the floor of a forest, reflecting trees above
Kearra Amaya Gopee, "Artifact #3: Terra Nullius," 2019; single-channel projection into water, metal washtub, mirrored washboard, powder detergent, bed sheet, clothing line.; dimensions variable.
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