• The Wound is a Portal
  • Now That I'm a River
  • Archiving the Void
  • I am You
  • WIP
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Gesiye

  • The Wound is a Portal
  • Now That I'm a River
  • Archiving the Void
  • I am You
  • WIP
  • bio
  • press
  • archive
  • studio lolia
  • selected work

Now That I’m a River

2023. In which a snake sheds its skin and becomes a river. Drawings, film, performance and mas reflecting on personal transformation, self expression and femme sexuality in the context of Carnival in Trinidad & Tobago.

Gesiye tattooing, film still from The Wound is a Portal.

The Wound is a Portal

2022. An interdisciplinary, social practice work that uses tattooing, performance and storytelling to facilitate healing and to explore the impact of colonialism and slavery on the Black Diaspora’s relationship with the land.

I am You

2023, WIP. Using tattooing to explore themes of connection and belonging, pairs of participants are invited to receive tattoos that relate to each other. Operating as a thread that connects the two, each tattoo is an abstract, completed form which shapeshifts when placed next to another tattoo.

Film still from GTA: Profile Patrol, part of the Broken Windows installation.

Broken Windows

2015. This work features anonymous interviews with Black police officers, and weaves together tv audio, advertising footage, video game footage and documentary photography to investigate the intersections of race, power and play within the context of the NYPD.

In Transit

2016. A documentary photography series created while taking public transit along the East-West corridor in Trinidad. This work was created during a period of personal transition from one space to another: moving back home after living abroad for four years.