EndIIEnd VR: Illumined and Illuminated re-imagines the poems of Carol Ciavonne, weaving the vantage points of an Azimuth, Quadrant, and Meridian to explore themes of exile, rebirth, and black sonic resistance.
Biography:
Leah Solomon (US) is an Eritrean-American, writer, moving-image, and sound artist (born 1995). Solomon holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work ventures into the realm of expanded cinema, examining queer black diasporic perspectives through autobiographical, personal, and abstracted geographies. She has developed a polyphonic vocabulary, spanning fiction, virtual reality, and documentary through her poetic and lyrical approaches. Solomon’s work demands a mediation of transnational migrant experiences concerning the Global South, political exile and belonging. Clashing a new frontier of post-apocalyptic visual and sonic vernaculars, she aims to create new futures through a negotiation of the past. Leah Solomon is a 2019 Luminarts Visual Fellow, and a recipient of the 2018 Terry Samala De Guzman Family Stipend Award through the Museum of Contemporary Art of Chicago.
