Williams’ meticulously researched practice - which spans collage, video, performance, and writing - foregrounds the body as a site of experience. Drawing from critical theory around race, authority, colonialism, necropolitics, and eroticism she interrogates representations of Blackness and the Black body across popular culture. The resulting work - which often involves processes of cutting up, stripping back, deconstruction, and compilation - collapses time and space, exposing the inherent violence within the transhistorical structures that render Black bodies, and particularly Black women’s bodies, in a state of embodied marginality. ...
