Malfunction Buds, multimedia installation: video 6’14’’, mesh fabric, acrylic paint, LED lights, sound, 2024, London.
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Malfunction Buds examines the disruptive power of otherness within a society defined by rigid categories of acceptability and respectability—thresholds that determine who is granted the status of “human.” By embracing the positionality of the “Other,” the work destabilizes the binary logics that divide living beings into categories of human and subhuman, valuable and expendable. At its core, the installation explores resistance through the idea of malfunction—moments where systemic frameworks falter, revealing cracks through which alternative possibilities can emerge.
Through moving images, distorted lights, soundscapes, and text, Malfunction Buds disrupts representations of rigid order, reframing the lines and rules of motorways as spaces of transition—zones that simultaneously reflect alienation and invisibility under systemic oppression.These disruptions create a sensory rupture, interrupting the logic of control and mirroring the artist’s experience of navigating racialized structures. Within these interruptions, viewers are invited to imagine a world beyond the strict paths and lines imposed by oppressive systems.
The glitch serves as a method of inhabiting in-between spaces where personhood defies imposed categories. In these malfunctions, what is deemed impossible becomes possible—a site for projection, expansion, and infinite imagination. The fractured lines of a never-ending journey open up spaces for liberation and renewal, where everything that was once constrained can take root and flourish. This multimedia installation asks: What other worlds can be dreamed of beyond the confines of control? How can disruptions within oppressive systems serve as sites of renewal and transformation?