Kameelah Janan Rasheed is a learner* from East Palo Alto, CA

Solo

2024

Video (10 count); Light-sensitive silver gelatin paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, Agua Florida, isopropyl alcohol (90%), fluctuating body weight, skin oils, Kosher rock salt, radiator heat, Brooklyn tap water, Cooley Landing marsh water, Houston sun, time, vellum paper, acetate, wooden frame (7 count); Treble fish hook, fishing line, inkjet print on Epson Enhanced Matte Paper, video projection, wood frame

REDCAT
Los Angeles, CA

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(1) “...where the garment gapes”*
*Title  comes from Roland Barthes, The Pleasures of the Text
2023-2024
Multi-channel media installation

Videos:
Index (Background) – 1
1:56 min
5800 x 1200 (29:6) 
Black-and-White
No Sound
Single Channel Video


Stimulate the spirit (left monitor) – 1A
7:39 min
3840×2160 (16:9)
Black-and-White
No Sound
Single Channel Video

We love such knowledge for it obeys great narratives (top left projection) - 1B
4:30 min
3840×3840(1:1)
Black-and-White
No Sound
Single Channel Video

am I a haunting accretion, a stunt, a trick? (Annotated) (right monitor) – 1C
3:23 min
2160x3840 (9:16)
Black-and-White
No Sound
Single Channel Video

Divination (bottom right projection) - 1D
3:57 min
3840×2160 (16:9)
Black-and-White
No Sound
Single Channel Video


(2)Keeping Count (Annotated)
2021-2023
9:34 min
3840×2160 (16:9)
Black-and-White
Original Score by Th&o.
Single channel video

(3) “The text needs its shadow”*
*Title  comes from Roland Barthes, The Pleasures of the Text
2024
Sculpture

Left to right:

Cooley Landing–South Central Los Angeles (2024)
Soil collected by Kameelah Janan Rasheed and Idris S. Rasheed from Cooley Landing (Coordinates. 37°28'35.0"N 122°7'21.2"W; Cities. East Palo Alto; Counties. San Mateo; Cross Streets. Bay Road and Pulgas Avenue) and her late Grandmother’s backyard (Coordinates. 33°59'324.217"N 118°19'12.94"W; Cities: Los Angeles; Counties. Los Angles; Cross Streets. 3rd Avenue and Slauson Avenue)

Lichen, Licking, Lingual I (2024)
Digital pigment print (premium paper, Hahn PR Bright White Pigment print mounted on ¼” Sintra)

Untitled (2024)
Marsh water from Cooley Landing collected by Idris S. Rasheed

(Coordinates. 37°28'35.0"N 122°7'21.2"W; Cities. East Palo Alto; Counties. San Mateo; Cross Streets. Bay Road and Pulgas Avenue)

Montpellier (2023)
Digital pigment print (premium paper, Hahn PR Bright White Pigment print mounted on ¼” Sintra)

Lichen, Licking, Lingual II (2024)
Digital pigment print (premium paper, Hahn PR Bright White Pigment print mounted on ¼” Sintra), “nuisance tree” fruit (American sweetgum or Liquidambar styraciflua)

Untitled (2024)
Stack of pages printed with the poem Mother, I am mad by Lucille Clifton (ca. 1980s)


(4) “Using Word as Bait”*
*Title  comes from Clarice Lispector, Agua Viva 2024
Treble fish hook, fishing line, inkjet print on Epson Enhanced Matte Paper, video projection, wood frame

(5)“...produces the pleasures of gastroscopy and of language*Title  comes from Roland Barthes, The Pleasures of the Text
2024

Left to right:

Study VIII
2021-2024
Light-sensitive silver gelatin paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, Agua Florida, isopropyl alcohol (90%), fluctuating body weight, skin oils, vaseline, radiator heat, Brooklyn tap water, Cooley Landing marsh water, time, vellum paper, acetate, wooden frame

Study IX
2024
Light-sensitive silver gelatin paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, Agua Florida, isopropyl alcohol (90%), fluctuating body weight, skin oils, kosher rock salt, vaseline, radiator heat, Brooklyn tap water, Cooley Landing marsh water, Houston sun, time, vellum paper, acetate, wooden frame

“For I want to feel in my hands the quivering and lively nerve of the now…”*

*Title  comes from Clarice Lispetor, Agua Viva
2024
1:52 min
4000x3000 (4:3)
Black-and-White
No Sound
Single Channel Video

RUB ME
2024
Watercolor paper, charcoal, skin cells and flakes, sweat

LICK ME
2024
Copy paper, food coloring, acrylic, saliva, food bits

“The mother licks the sack of fluid so many times that it finally breaks…”*
*Title  comes from Clarice Lispetor, Agua Viva
2024
1:48 min
4000x3000 (4:3)
Black-and-White
No Sound
Single Channel Video

Study X
2024
Light-sensitive silver gelatin paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, Agua Florida, isopropyl alcohol (90%), fluctuating body weight, skin oils, kosher rock salt, vaseline, radiator heat, Brooklyn tap water, Cooley Landing marsh water, Houston sun, time, vellum paper, acetate, wooden frame

Study XI
2024
Light-sensitive silver gelatin paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, Agua Florida, isopropyl alcohol (90%), fluctuating body weight, skin oils, kosher rock salt, radiator heat, Brooklyn tap water, Cooley Landing marsh water, Houston sun, time, vellum paper, acetate, wooden frame

Study XII
2024
Light-sensitive silver gelatin paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, Agua Florida, isopropyl alcohol (90%), fluctuating body weight, skin oils, kosher rock salt, vaseline, radiator heat, Brooklyn tap water, Cooley Landing marsh water, Houston sun, time, vellum paper, acetate, wooden frame

“Like a priest gulping down his Mass”
*Title  comes from Roland Barthes, The Pleasures of the Text
2024
2:47 min
4000x3000 (4:3)
Black-and-White
No Sound
Single Channel Video

DRINK ME
2024
Jar, edible paper, food coloring, saliva

EAT ME
2024
Edible paper, saliva

“We are gorged with language…”
*Title  comes from Roland Barthes, The Pleasures of the Text
2024
1:40 min
4000x3000 (4:3)
Black-and-White
No Sound
Single Channel Video

Study XIII
2024
Light-sensitive silver gelatin paper, photographic fixer, photographic developer, Agua Florida, isopropyl alcohol (90%), fluctuating body weight, skin oils, Kosher rock salt, radiator heat, Brooklyn tap water, Cooley Landing marsh water, Houston sun, time, vellum paper, acetate, wooden frame