Episode 1: Dominique White
Fiona Reilly, 2021
EPISODE TRANSCRIPT
Dominique White is a sculptor who recently relocated to Marseille after the first Covid wave in 2020. She’s been working nomadically since forfeiting her London studio at the beginning of the pandemic, and has since pondered how working nomadically has changed her health and her practice. Her practice is positioned within the theories of Black Subjectivity, Afro-pessimism and Hydrarchy (from below) as a space that she defines as the Shipwreck(ed).
Recent and upcoming exhibitions include The Cinders of the Wreck at Triangle France, Marseille (2022), Hydra Decapita at VEDA Firenze, Florence (2021); Techno Worlds at Art Quarter Budapest, commissioned by Goethe-Institut (2021) and Blackness in Democracy's Graveyard at UKS, Oslo (2021).
She was awarded the ad occhi chiusi… prize by Fondazione Merz in 2021 and the Roger Pailhas Prize in 2019 in conjunction with her solo presentations with VEDA Firenze and has received awards from Artangel (UK) and the Henry Moore Foundation (UK) in 2020. White was in residency at Sagrada Mercancía (CL), Triangle France – Astérides (FR) and La Becque (CH) in 2020 and 2021.