I am an art historian and currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Arts and Cultural Studies. My research interests concern Black diaspora art history in the Nordic region and beyond from the late 18th century until the present.
In my PhD dissertation, I examine embodiment in contemporary artistic practices and discourses of the Black diaspora in Denmark, drawing on frameworks from Black Studies and queer feminist art history. I write about the aesthetic and political work of black artists based in Denmark , with an emphasis on those belonging to the generations of artists active from the 1980s to the present. 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.
At the University of Copenhagen, I am a member of the research cluster Nordic Models , the research group Thinking Photography Today, and formerly a member of the research network The Art of Nordic Colonialism. I am a member of the editorial board of Periskop – Forum for kunsthistorisk debat.
Since 2024 I have been one half of the curatorial duo G/HOSTING together with Mai Takawira. G/HOSTING uses curatorial, editorial, educational and dissemination projects to activate critical and reparative approaches to ongoing colonial histories. Through collaborations with artists, authors and cultural institutions, G/HOSTING facilitates interventions into exhibitions, collections and public spaces.