EXHIBITIONS
MOBILE FRAGMENTS
Ariel Feminism | Copenhagn, Denmark | June 2021
In the exhibition Mobile Fragments (in collaboration with Luiza Prado de O. Martins) Bonhomme activates the intimate, communal, and scientific (mis)conceptions of the black body by triangulating medical narratives of failure, loss, and growth. Starting from autobiography and moving towards near present accounts, the work is presented in the form of a mixed-media and multi-sensory experiment. In collages and one sound piece, Bonhomme follows the line of an ongoing meditation that charts archaeology of black (in)fertility while also troubling how we think about kin through journals, medical reports, psychoanalysis, and sound.
DREAMING BLACK FUTURES
Digital Prater | Berlin, Germany | December 2020
In this collaborative exhibition with Mia Imani Harrison, Bonhomme invited participants to enter into a dream world that invokes Black memories, conversations, and visuality (both in the analog and digital realm). We will excavate intergenerational and transnational dialogues that can be (re)produced within the cyber dreamscape.
TO BE YOUNG, BLACK, AND (EN)RAGED
Kunstverein Hildesheim | Hildesheim, Germany | October 2020 - December 2020
In the world that we live in, this video is my meditation, as a Haitian American feminist who seeks to revalue Black life such that it breaks with the Eurocentric ontologies that persist today. I gesture towards the Black women who have been steadfast in challenging capitalism, the remnants of colonialism that fuel wars, and police brutality. In this period of needless death, we need a politics of repair—material, ideological, and technological—designed to throttle the problem of international racism. This is a politics of abolition, a politics of reparations, a politics of restorative justice, and Black liberation. It’s about reckoning with the pain that has become ubiquitous and knowing that the tentacles of racism can begin to become undone.
CARTOGRAPHIES OF CARE
alpha nova & galerie futura | Berlin, Germany | February - March 2020
In collaboration with Nnenna Onuoha, this exhibition charts not only Black Berliners’ often-difficult experiences with the German healthcare system but also how they find solace and restoration in Afrodiasporic healing arts. We find that care is at the core of Black, queer and feminist traditions. Care is ubiquitous, and its parameters dictate how we move through the world; determining whether we survive or thrive. Cartographies of Care traces how healing is imagined and exercised in African diasporic bodies. It gathers experiences and practices from a variety of cultures living in Berlin through ancestral memories, mobile archives, and Black futures. It is an invitation for a collective sensorial experience that shows how Afrodiasporic people repair.
SCAN THE DIFFERENCE
Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs (VBKÖ) | Vienna, Austria | May 2019
In the exhibition, (in collaboration with Vanessa Gravenor and Nina Prader) we engage with intersectional feminism to consider the ways that surveillance is featured in our lives. Through a series of lectures, a zine-making workshop, and lecture performances, the aim is to create awareness and visibility on how bodies have been scanned medically, culturally, and politically. Over the course of the exhibition, we will explore questions relating to archiving the self in the age of data collection and digitalization. What strategies do we have to own our body, medically and/or politically? The notion of “the scan” is the tension point: scanning the medical, digitized, or human body, scanning a page for the digital archive, the algorithm. Who, what, and how are you being scanned for society?