Dominique Duroseau
Dominique Duroseau is a multidisciplinary artist born in Chicago, raised in Haiti, and currently based in Newark. She has had solo exhibitions at the A.I.R. Gallery in Brooklyn, NY, The Box Gallery at Rutgers University, Yema Gallery, and Gallery Aferro in Newark, NJ. Her group exhibitions, performances, and screenings include The Kitchen, Sculpture Center, El Museo del Barrio, and Smack Mellon in New York City, and Newark Museum, Index Arts, Project for Empty Space in Newark.
About her work, the artist states: “I create narratives. I document, cross-examine, create cultural hybridizations. I de-contextualize/re-contextualize texts, topics, and issues on Black Culture’s constant striving within today’s society.”
About her work in WOV II:
“Mammy was here” is an ongoing portraiture series currently focused on healing and reclaiming the self, post-trauma, social rejections, etc., and reclaiming one’s body and pleasure. It’s an interrogation on power/pleasure/eroticism, Black visibility and the Black body itself, dissecting fetishism, desexualization, and the normalcy of various types of Black beauty and attractions.
In these works, there’s a subtle and silent battle with issues of victimization, coping with being a survivor, and working towards reviving from a mental and physical stasis. Micro-gestures, micro-movements, what is seen and unseen, the process is a pursuit of being unapologetic of one’s body, a Black body especially a Big Black Body and their existence as a whole. The work is investigating complex issues of being a woman, femininity, race, sex, shame, assault, fear, identity, healing, body image, vulnerability, and power.
You can learn more about her at dominiqueduroseau.com