Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely
performance, dimensions variable, 2023–ongoing
A pigment print of the 228 incident, divided and mounted on six 40 × 40 inch wood panels. In three live performances, the artist scrubs away the image with sandpaper, one panel at a time, rendering the historical event as an irresolute afterimage.
Performed on the ground level in both open and enclosed spaces, the scrubbing action borrows from the gesture of women kneeling and scrubbing household floors by hand.
This repetitive action initially followed the artist’s daily ritual, at one point, of burning 8 × 10 inch prints of the same image.
Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely, performance with sandpaper, physical labor, on six 40 × 40 inch pigment prints on wood panel; 21 minutes, 2024
Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely, performance with sandpaper, physical labor, on six 40 × 40 inch pigment prints on wood panel; 21 minutes, 2024
Parsons MFA Photography 2024 Thesis Exhibition, Country within Country and Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely, 2024 (installation view)
Maintain Status Quo Indefinitely, excerpt of a performance with sandpaper and physical labor on pigment prints, 10 × 13 feet, 2023
Untitled, ash and acrylic paint on pigment print, 7.75 × 11.25 inches, 2022–2023