About
Charlotte Henay is a Bahamian diasporic artist, scholar and Assistant Professor in Women’s and Gender Studies at Brock University. She engages poetry, lyric and visual essays in making multidisciplinary work about Black and Indigenous women’s voices as witness, for Afro-Indigenous futurities. Her writing has appeared in salt. For the preservation of Black diasporic visual histories - a special issue of RACAR | The Journal of the Universities Art Association of Canada, The Offing’s Enumerate, ROOM Magazine's special edition Turtle Island Talks Back, The League of Canadian Poets’ These Lands: A Collections of Voices by Black Poets in Canada chapbook, and various journals and anthologies. Forthcoming pieces are in the edited collection, Remembering and Memorializing Violence: Transnational Feminist Dialogues, and . Charlotte’s visual work has been shown at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, apexart gallery in Manhattan, New York, the National Art Gallery of the Bahamas’ biennials NE8 and NE9, and in a collaborative project featured in Double Dutch 8.
current work
All of My People’s Bones Are Here asks whether troubling intracolonial/intracommunity boundaries and multidisciplinary practices recenters colonial qualifications of indigeneity and blackness. It is organized around the questions of what liminal praxes may tell us about memorying and archives at the interstices of blackness and indigeneity; what are the major impetuses to Afro-Indigenous politics of imagining? I am curious about how we might acknowledge a practice of visual referencing through which we converse with spirit – always to the epiphenomenal moment.