About
I'm Danielle (she/her), a Baleng* cis queer MULTImedia self-taught artist based on Piscataway and Susquehannock lands (Baltimore, MD). I move between acrylic strokes, woven fibers, digital pixels, West and Central African fabrics to explore the central thesis in my work: "whose imagination are you living in?". With this query, I invite us to interrogate norms rooted in white supremacy, colonialism and the patriarchy, which shape our societies and erode our relationships with ourselves, our ancestors and each other.
Through each art piece, I assert that queer and trans Africans have always been here and will always be here.
*Baleng: West Cameroonian tribe, part of the Bamiléké ethnic group, descendants of the Bantu people
I draw inspiration from my memories, my coming out story, global history, U.S. popular culture, my readings on racial capitalism, Black womanist thought and African queer histories.
I do not consent to having my work fed to any AI learning language models.
*+237 on my logo is the country code for Cameroon
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shot by Jeff Butler
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