Davinia-Ann Robinson

black ripples - 2025

Through an embodied engagement with somatic practices and bearing witness to sensations within both the corporeal and incorporeal body, ‘black ripples’ evoke moments of undoing. The works explore how racial trauma resides in Black and Brown bodies through ancestral, intergenerational, and present-day encounters with ‘white-body supremacy’ and how practices of settling and convening with ancestors through a decolonial restoration of rituals and practices (Tuhiwai Smith, 2012:149) can become conduits for undoing and dismantling how racial trauma is held within our bodies.

Commissioned by Stanley Picker Gallery