198.12 x 289.56 cm
Adorned with patterning and ornamentation, the artist seduces the viewer into bearing witness to the underreported and unacknowledged brutality experienced by those on the lower rungs of the socioeconomic ladder. Gone are the party people glittering in the video light, these new tapestries hold images of murder victims, drawing attention to shadowy and more violent aspects of the pageantry:
An image was circulating on social media of a three-year-old child who was murdered in a tenement housing project. Bystanders took pictures and shared them with the intent to raise awareness—that this photo was so disturbing that it would get attention. I think there is something very strange that happens with people who choose to share images like that. We no longer think about the individual, it’s not a person, it’s an image, [and] it’s an object. There is this distance; we now only experience the world through a screen which separates us from the reality. The catch-22 is that if we didn’t have social media, these people—these invisibles—would not be visible, we would not know about them.
