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LOVE THAT

The work explores the body as a living archive connected to the surrounding environment shaped by histories, social conditions, memory and lived experience. Through autobiographical image-making, the body becomes a site where race, gender, ancestral memory, and identity are continually performed and restaged.

Using Black feminist texts as references within cinematic framing, alongside the body in relation to objects, movement, and absence, I examine erasure as both a historical condition and an adaptive strategy. Working through myth-making and rituals of refusal, the image approaches the body as a site of resistance. I treat moments of rupture as constellations, positioning myself within the work as performer, witness, and choreographer. The work considers how identity, shaped through its relationship to environment, is rehearsed, inherited, and continually remade.

Each photograph title is structured through episodic titling borrowed from television and streaming formats, approachseriality as a way of staging repetition and memory.

LOVE THAT - Episode 01, Black Feminist Thought | Sunday, 19 April 2026, 14:55:44

LOVE THAT - Episode 01, Black Feminist Thought | Sunday, 19 April 2026, 14:55:44. These self-portraits transform theatrical characters into ritual forms. The title references Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins, 1990

LOVE THAT - Episode 02, Ain’t I a Woman | Sunday, 19 April 2026, 13:18:41

LOVE THAT - Episode 02, Ain’t I a Woman | Sunday, 19 April 2026, 13:18:41. These self-portraits transform theatrical characters into ritual forms. The title references Ain’t I a Woman? by bell hooks, 1981

LOVE THAT - Episode 03, Black Rage | Sunday, 19 April 2026, 14:52:41

LOVE THAT - Episode 03, Black Rage | Sunday, 19 April 2026, 14:52:41. These self-portraits transform theatrical characters into ritual forms. The title references Black Rage by Beverly Stoute, 2021

LOVE THAT - Episode 04, Tracking Epistemic Violence | Sunday, 19 April 2026 at 14:20

LOVE THAT - Episode 04, Tracking Epistemic Violence | Sunday 19 April 2026 at 14:20:26. These self-portraits transform theatrical characters into ritual forms. The title references Tracking Epistemic Practices by Kristie Dotson, 2011

Joyce Treasure
Multidisciplinary Artist
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