KESSWASTUDIO@GMAIL.COM
BIOGRAPHY
ARTIST STATEMENT
CV
SELECTED WORK
MUSIC/MERCH
KESSWASTUDIO@GMAIL.COM
BIOGRAPHY
ARTIST STATEMENT
CV
SELECTED WORK
MUSIC/MERCH
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
To mark the closing of her solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, KESSWA foregrounds social practice as a hair braider and fiber artist in a collaborative performance with New York-based writer and filmmaker Fatima Jamal. Jamal interviewed KESSWA about the convergence of her spiritual practice and interdisciplinary work, discussed Black feminist literature, somatic healing practices, the head as a divine entity and sacred body part through West African traditional religion, and braiding as a technological innovation.