In a dimly lit room, two persons of African descent are seated behind a table covered with a silver tablecloth. The person on the right is wearing colorful clothes and holds a long stick in their left hand. The person on the left is wearing a white smock and is displaying the contents of a cauldron in front of them. Several bowls are scattered across the table. To the right of the table, a floor lamp shines its light forward.
Po B. K. Lomami aksanti 33 (part 1), performance view, artch, Montréal, 2023.
Photo: Document Original, courtesy of the artist

Po B. K. Lomami’s iterative and interactive artworks visualize and materialize how time loops and stretches when white normativity is refused and disability, queerness, and Blackness serve as the organizing principles of social relationships and infrastructures. Lomami leverages durational media to create installations that unfurl in and as crip time, swooping gracefully from the intimate and embodied to the structural and conceptual.

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