About

I am an art historian, editor, and translator. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Arts and Cultural Studies. My research concerns  African diaspora art history in the Nordic region and beyond from the late eighteenth century until the present. 

In my PhD dissertation, I examine embodiment in contemporary artistic practices and discourses of the African diaspora in Denmark, drawing on frameworks from Black Studies and queer feminist art history. I write about the aesthetic and political work of African diasporic artists based in Denmark , with an emphasis on those belonging to the generations of artists active from the 1980s to the present. Through six case studies and close readings, I propose a fragmented contemporary Afro-Danish art history. My dissertation is an attempt to place  African diasporic aesthetics in Denmark in dialogue with transnational debates in afrofeminist and black feminist art theory, queer of color critique, and performance studies. 

I am a member of the research network The Art of Nordic Colonialism, the research group Thinking Photography Today, and the research cluster Nordic Models. I am a member of the editorial board of Periskop – Forum for kunsthistorisk debat.