Recounting her ordeal to JoyNews, she said “we see death every day, we pay be on the machine and your heart can fail you, so you can die. It comes with heart and diabetes. A lot of young guys died from May till date. The most painful was Charles – he was a very young and vibrant guy,” she bemoaned.
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“The work reconsiders the figure of alienated working class youth to explore the different facets of ‘coming of age’ for young women living in South London,” she explains. “With this film, I’m in direct conversation with others who talk about the tensions within the solidarity of Black womanhood. I use hair, a very significant touchstone and marker of identity, to explore how we often bury the needs of others.”
Realised as part of New Creatives, supported by Arts Council England and BBC Arts, and in collaboration with ICA and Dazed,
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