Location: San Francisco, CA
Medium: Photography, fiber, text, research, archival practice
Website: relrobinson.info
rel robinson (they/she, b. 1995, Los Angeles) is an artist and writer based in San Francisco. They received their BA from UC Santa Cruz and are an alum of the San Francisco Arts Commission Artist Development program. They have been published in Guts Magazine, Pear Noir!, and other journals, and are an editor at large at THE FELT. They have been an artist in residence at Headlands Center for the Arts and John McNeil Studio in San Francisco, where a limited edition print was produced through JMS Limited Edition. Their work has been exhibited at Southern Exposure in San Francisco and Root Division, among other Bay Area venues.
robinson works in and around photography, fiber, research, text, and archival methodologies, superimposing the affectual and the abject to develop a material politics of form. Their practice asks what photographs and archives do to bodies, and what bodies do to photographs and archives — approaching the image not as a window but as a surface with its own weight and texture, to be touched, handled, pulled apart, and reassembled. Fiber enters the work as a means of repair and interruption: thread drawn through photographs, textile structures that hold images in tension, weavings that carry the marks of the archive’s gaps. Writing is woven through the practice equally — essays, poems, and lyric criticism are not supplementary to the visual work but continuous with it. Robinson’s practice has been described as operating at the intersection of photography and Black feminist theory, attending to what cannot be shown as carefully as what can.
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