RTS is excited to host a Virtual Artist Talks with Simone Bailey & Sekai Machache Sunday, September 27, 2020, from 12:00-2:00 pm via Zoom.
Simone Bailey is an artist who utilizes video, performance, sculpture, and site-specific installations in her artistic practice. Her practice is an interrogation of disembodied poetics and the impulse to grasp the intangible. Her work focuses on perception, process, ephemerality, desire, surrogate bodies, violence, and the impossible, all while maintaining an intimate proximity to blackness. Simone’s work has been exhibited at The Museum of the African Diaspora (San Francisco, CA), The Lab (San Francisco, CA), Southern Exposure (San Francisco, CA), Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA), and the Studio Museum in Harlem (New York, NY), among other venues. She received both an MFA in Fine Arts and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from California College of the Arts. She also earned a BFA in Filmmaking from San Francisco Art Institute. Simone lives and works in San Francisco.
Sekai Machache is a visual artist and curator based in Edinburgh, Scotland. Her work is a deep interrogation of the notion of self. Having been born in Zimbabwe and raised in Scotland, she has a particular interest in W.E.B Dubois’ notion of Double Consciousness, which expresses the psychological challenge of having African heritage whilst living in the West. She is interested in the relationship between spirituality, imagination, and the role of the artist in disseminating symbolic imagery to provide a space for healing. Sekai works with a wide range of media including photography and performance. Her photographic practice is formulated through digital studio based compositions utilizing body paint and muted lighting conditions to create images that appear to emerge from darkness. Sekai often works collaboratively, for and with her community, and is a founding and organizing member of the Yon Afro Collective. She believes that intentionality is key to establishing a creative practice that aims for sustainability and longevity. As an artist and curator of color, it is her intention to create new and innovative projects that engage a wide audience while speaking directly to the experiences of her community. Her goal is to always consider with intention, the implications of working as an international artist and curator to facilitate the practice of others while maintaining her own artistic vision.
Please email realtimeandevents@gmail.com to obtain the zoom information for this event. Thank you.