Thoughtful Intentions
Sarah Nakiito is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with textiles, plants and other natural materials, the body, and text. Sometimes her works form spatial installations, though she also works with costume and performance.
For this year's SSDD Sarah Nakiito will exhibit a snippet of the project "Black Female Form" which in its purest form is a consideration of the theme "Self-care”. The project´s gaze is a decolonizing and contemporary mapping of mental illness, racism, minority stress and methods of collective healing for marginalized groups.
Racism, sexism and exotification against the black and brown female body have caused mental illness and colonial legacy to leave traces and limitations in how we navigate in the white majority societies in the Global North with the predetermined conditions that apply to (especially the foreign-born) immigrant woman today. We have inherited deep colonial psychological trauma that leads to a systematic disguise of the self (code switching) and are forced to assume a role, especially in white rooms