Dominique Duroseau

 I create narratives.

I document, investigate, cross-examine, create cultural hybridizations.

I de-contextualize/re-contextualize texts, topics, and issues on Black Culture’s constant striving within today’s society. The work addresses issues that have remained persistent, morphed, and folds in residuals of colonial influence, women's issues, and criticism of imperialist white-supremacist patriarchal cultures.

I work within the cusp of my cultures as Haitian, American, and African Diaspora, then link unresolved issues across time as a political strategy. This takes into account the nuances of language, imagery, and mannerisms, while illuminating social issues and injustice, depicting contemporary struggles against indifference, coded vernacular, and entrenched economic dispositions.

My recent work has focused on exploring and continuing abstract narratives portraying various aspects of Black identities/issues via different media: photography, performance, video, audio, etc. I’m exploring issues that exist then, now, and that could possibly seep into the future. The black-cloaked self-portraitures continue to address ongoing issues of systemic tokenism, prevailing effects of colonialism and white supremacy. “Negro Quota” began as a diagrammatic grid installation of over three hundred fancy white cards daubed with white-out, and five marked with small matte black marks. This developed into a series of objects with “Negro Quota” screen-printed and etched onto them, amplifying the subtext of objectification, dispensability, and mocking empty performative activism gestures regarding diversity and solidarity. These objects have been: fitted caps (one lives in an acrylic display box), a $40 black cotton tote bag, a series of cheap white t-shirts and men’s briefs, prisoners' spit hoods and steel handcuffs both worn performing “Rap on Race with Rice” on the streets of NY.