Making Connections Across Art Forms

Buséje Bailey’s recent work Making Connections Across Art Forms is grounded in an autobiographical structure which explores the construction of the Black self and its multiple articulations. In this case the self is one which was born into and developed within an African diasporic context. A sense of loss of ‘name’, personhood and personal narrative foregrounds this diasporic identity. Bailey’s quest for a departure point into her particular diasporic experience challenges us to see that what we see, or come to know, as diasporic Black people is predicated on only a fraction of the story. Making Connections Across Art Forms is a search for personal, familial and political knowledge which disputes the existence of a static or neutral official history. In other words, the exhibition is an intensified struggle for personal and collective de-colonization.