Immersive installation inspired by the Drexciya mythology by NYC-based artist Firelei Báez.
It includes lush foliage and paintings of the exiled Haitian Queen Marie-Louise Coidavid (1778-1851) and her daughters.
A Drexcyen chronocommons (To win the war you fought it sideways), 2019
Firelei Báez
In the early 1990s, Drexciya, a Detroit-based techno duo imagined an underwater kingdom populated by the children of pregnant women thrown overboard or jumped voluntarily into the ocean.
Drexciya’s founding myth inspired Daveed Diggs' band clippng. to write "The Deep"
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Drexciyans swam from their mothers' wombs, began to breathe seawater, and established their underwater community.
"To psychologically inhabit a femme space is a transformative gesture.
It is a radical positioning that could enable a different way of organizing space and bodies..."
- Firelei Báez
