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Felisha Maria Carenage

Felisha is driven by inherited paradigms of romance and kinship. She uses painting, texts and interactive installations to explore recontextualizations of cultural commodities in language, literature and history. Born in Trinidad and Tobago, she currently lives in France and Germany.

Her post-graduate project, HEIMATSCHUTZ: Colonial Continuities in Schleswig-Holstein’s Harbour Cities examines the inherent violence in the architecture and infrastructure of post-colonial cities, and their role in engineering and perpetuating the myth of german memory culture. Focusing on colonial traces in harbour cities on and near the Baltic Sea, she works with Integrative Geographies at the Europa-Universität in Flensburg, which deals with reparative justice.

In 2021, with the funding of the BBK Bundesverband, she developed the artistic dress project, Parade Créole, based on the impulses of Anna Muthesius’ Das Eigenkleid der Frau (1903) and Frantz Fanon’s Peau noire, masques blancs (1952). This project explores the feminized , racialised body’s intimate negotiations of europeanised space, as well as phenomena of research aesthetics. Drawing Breath, a limited edition Artist’s Book, is the documentation of this work.

Since 2017 she has been an Associate Lecturer in Fine Arts at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Art and Design in Kiel.

UPCOMING

March, 2023
Research Residency
Reading 10.03.23 18-21:00
ALICE YARD @ Granderson Lab
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago, W.I.

Reading 24.03.2023
Parade Créole: Drawing Breath
Studio Dem
Brooklyn

April-June, 2023
Publication
Unbehagen Pflegen
Fine Arts Department + Diversity Commission
Muthesius University of Fine Art and Design
Kiel and Online

May, 2023
Exhibition
Santa Maria Paraffina
with Anne Meerpohl + Luiza Furtado
MOM
Fabrique Gängeviertel
Hamburg

June, 2023
Intervention
1773::2023
part of the exhibition 1773, curated by Jens Martin Neumann
City and Maritime Museum Warleberger Hof
Kiel

PAST

October- December, 2022
Installation
Badgyal Elegies
Theatre Pilkentafel
Flensburg

October, 2022 – March, 2023
Reading Group
Art, Design and Social Engagement: towards a decolonial feminist art practise in Kiel
Fine Arts Department + Diversity Commission
Muthesius University of Fine Art and Design
Kiel and Online

August, 2022
Installation
(Reading 27.08.22 at 11:00)
Parade Créole: Drawing Breath
FREIRAUM
Museum of Applied Arts
Festival der partizipativen Räume
Hamburg

October, 2022
Research Residency
National Museum of Wales
Cardiff

October- November, 2022
Seminar/Excursion
Anti-Racist Curation at the Milk of Dreams,
Biennale di Venezia
Venice