‘If the Loss of Memory’ documents a 2-hour performance piece that references enslavement  through a sequence showing two brown women connected by hair braids and by the embodied, subconscious memories which they manifest.  The hair that binds them is not only their own, but also of other people of color, alluding to collective memory.

In a very repetitive, slow and vigorous sequence of gestures, they roll in the sand and drag a fisherman’s net filled with heavy rocks towards the ocean, where they abandon the net as the waves crash against them, releasing the rocks, and finally separating paths. 

Their heads are physically connected during the whole struggle, and their action is simultaneously a desire of connection and a reminder of black bodies sunk with rocks in the ocean during the transatlantic slave trade.

*Video Piece is only for non-virtual Exhibition Purposes.