"Addressing subject matters as broad and overwhelming as the enduring specter of coloniality in digital culture or as intimate as dietary regimes for womb health, Rezaire's vision is a capacious one, one that mandates a level of presence and engagement that few artists today are prepared to attempt, let alone sustain. In speaking to her about her understandings of the faultlines between healing and wellness, between liberatory and scarcity logics, her thoughts reflect the encompassing vision that defines her works."
"From the appropriation of the cellular body of Henrietta Lacks-a Black woman whose cells were harvested by Johns Hopkins University doctors in the 1950s and which continue to be used in research-to the healing potential of the ancient form of the stone circle, Rezaire's work has challenged the ways in which forms of restorative knowledge are deployed and the cosmologies that underpin them."
Tabita Rezaire’s practice centers healing and the human longing for restoration while interrogating power and knowledge hierarchies inherited from colonial systems. Her work engages difficult lineages, including the appropriation of Henrietta Lacks’s cellular body and the recuperation of ancestral practices such as stone-circle healing, to reveal how restorative knowledge is deployed and controlled. Rezaire connects expansive themes—coloniality in digital culture and intimate practices like womb-health dietary regimes—within a capacious, presence-driven vision. Exhibitions such as Obi Libations examine interactions among knowledge-production systems, and the practice seeks to dismantle hierarchies between people, genders, races, and ways of knowing.
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