Beg 4 Me (2024)
Acrylic on canvas36 in x 48 in
This painting emerges from ongoing wars and conversations around womanhood, feminism, and Black womanhood. As I grow into myself, I question what it means to be a woman, how I choose to exist versus what society has taught me.
I reflect on the intersections of Black womanhood, sex, and war: the violence enacted on and for land and body, and the ways sexuality is used to conceal, control, or shape experience. I consider the shifting expectations placed on Black women across spaces, and the tension
between constraint and liberation.
This work marks the beginning of my exploration of womanhood as a physical, visual, and spiritual transformation.
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I, Michelle Msami, acknowledge that I am working, living and creating on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Stó:lō, Semá:th (Sumas), Mathxwí (Matsqui), and Leq\'á:mel First Nations.
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