Malcolm Lizzappi

Malcolm Lizzappi (Maryland, USA)

Danyele in Paris, 2022

large format black and white film photo, 100% Alpha Cellulose

44 x 66 inches

Liberation is possible when no one epistemology reigns completely. My work began as an interest in the leftovers of Atlantic epistemologies of Blackness. What remains outside the archives tells the story of enslaved peoples in the Americas. This line leads me to the body as a full archive and photo as a way of knowing: epistemological collaging, overlaying, and time play. These photos come from dreams of the timeline of liberation and its fleeting and amorphous nature.