An installation with themes of mental illness and methods of healing.
Sarah Nakiito is an interdisciplinary artist who primarily works with textiles, plants and other natural materials, body and text. Sometimes her works form spatial installations, but she also works with costume and performance. At this year's SSDD, Sarah Nakiito will exhibit an excerpt 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 look at 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 legacies to leave traces and limitations in how we navigate the white majority societies of the global north with the predetermined conditions that apply to (especially foreign born) immigrant women today . We have inherited deep colonial psychological traumas that lead to a systematic disguise of the self (code switching) and are forced to adopt a role, especially in white rooms.
This project is done with support from Region Skåne and Kulturrådet
