Art Plugged | Khaleb Brooks

Khaleb Brooks is interviewed by Hind Berji for Art Plugged.

 

"Khaleb Brooks is an artist whose work captures the black queer figure as an entity both perpetually out of place and firmly rooted in history.

 

Brooks imagines new spaces for conversations around the Atlantic Slave Trade, jumping timelines from recorded history and making way for afro-futurist musings.

 

Sometimes, Brooks’ work references African folklore, particularly in relation to water, creating therianthropic figures that exist within the contexts of lived black experiences."

 

 

Read the full article here

April 20, 2021