Framed Intimacy foreword

A research about posing, bearing and positioning yourself. Longing to express togetherness through material heirlooms.

This project is now archived and was part of DDW23

This project is part of
Introduction on DDW

Still Framed intimacy

Anne Lakeman

A longing about who went before us. Portraying their ways of posing, bearing and positioning themselves through West- African sculpture. Longing to express togetherness through material heirlooms. Presenting the ability to express the generational connection by embodying.

About my practice

I try to find ways to nurture and honour every part of (my) identity, the Self. By finding ways to portray an imagination in which all these parts can coexist. Each research leads to a chapter. These chapters together give me a broader more grounded vision of how to be rooted in my being. All the pieces of a person’s history are akin and make them who they are. Not one or the other, but identity, the Self, is one big connected web in which all these threads combined are what makes it whole. Portraying all parts of one’s identity or shining light on forgotten or neglected parts, leads to radical imagination. My work is informed by the connections I find within the art of dressing up. By examining different cultural aspects within Black culture that at first glance seem far apart. How can a connection between differing styles enrich and uplift one another? My work largely stems from research within the European Afro-diaspora but I also go to West Africa; Burkina Faso, Mali, Ghana and Nigeria, for family visits and ongoing research into the art of dressing up. It sharpens my vision by questioning certain ways of being and presenting in the world.