Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art
 

Ashanti Harris

A person's hands held up, splayed at the wrists and outstretched. In small writing it says 'And now I'm thinking about oil'.
Ashanti Harris, Black Gold, 2024
Film still
The reflection of a figure on the surface of water
Ashanti Harris, Black Gold, 2023
Film stills
Film commissioned by Fringe of Colour
Some figures performing with drums wearing bright costumes inside a scaffolding-like structure
Ashanti Harris, Dancing a Peripheral Quadrille, 2022
Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop. Pictured performers KJ Clark-Davis, Jess Paris, Hamshya Rajkumar
Photograph by Sophie Jones

Ashanti Harris is an artist and researcher exploring themes of diasporic identity, history, and movement through a performative and participatory sculptural practice that centres her local community in the process of embodying histories, cultures and legacies through the act of making.

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