GOLD

Photographic series that revisits a Shibari performance by Caritia and Bishop Black, originally conducted at Karada House on January 31st, 2020. Returning to this collaboration years later, the work reflects on memory, transformation, and continuity—both personal and collective—through still imagery.

Rooted in the Japanese tradition of Kintsugi, golden joinery, the series embraces breakage and repair as visible and meaningful elements of history. Within this framework, Gold engages with the lived realities of Black bodies from the African diaspora, acknowledging histories of fracture, endurance, and resilience carried across generations. Marks, tension, and vulnerability are not concealed but held as sites of knowledge and presence.

The collaboration unfolds as an act of shared authorship and care. Through rope, paint, and photographic interpretation, the artists co-create a process of reparation — addressing what has been broken, distorted, or tormented, not as isolated experience but as part of a broader ancestral and cultural continuum. Gold frames repair not as restoration, but as an ongoing practice of visibility, resilience, and self-definition.

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Year: 2024
Medium: Photography

CREDITS

Performance & Concept: Caritia & Bishop Black
Photography: Renée de Sans
Location: Studio Haus Sommer, Berlin (Photography) & Karada House, Berlin (Performance)