LaRissa Rogers (b. 1996) is an interdisciplinary artist born in Charlottesville, VA. She holds a Bachelor in Fine Art and Bachelor in Interdisciplinary Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University. Rogers’ work looks at the intersections of culture, identity, and embedded forms of colonization expressed through perception and psyche. Combining aspects of memory, history, and personal experience, she delves into what is her blackness by addressing ideas of hybridity, authenticity, and visibility as an Afro-Asian woman. As slavery's ongoing past continues to inform the present, her work uses materials that reference past histories and recontextualizes them to articulate ideas surrounding labor, safety, healing, resistance, and resilience. Through performance, installation, and video, the body becomes an archive and vessel for collective memory and reimagining, while temporality provides pathways for decolonial futures and alternative possibilities for black people to exist.

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