D. Denenge Akpem

In a performance and installation that revises the storybook character Rapunzel, D. Denenge Akpem transforms herself into what she calls “a space sea siren hybrid human–jellyfish” replete with dangling lighted fiber-optic tentacles. She spawns a surreal environment where “afri-futurism,” the aquatic world, and fairy tales meet, while also subversively flirting with representations of Black femininity, seduction, and repulsion and what constitutes a damsel-in-distress.

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D. Denenge Akpem