Naimo Omar

My practice centres around a constant dissection of the different factors that comprise my identity (Black, Muslim, fat, cis woman, child of Somali diasporic parents) and how they intersect/interact with each other — how it exists in both private and public spheres as well as the relativity of public and private when contextualised in a multitude of spaces and situations. It simultaneously functions as an active critique on viewers and their intrinsic perspectives as well as an essential reflective process facilitating healing and emotional resolution. Through the intersection of painting, moving image, text and found object installation, I seek to explore the precarious nature of existing societal structures around bodies and interrogate the various experiences of minority peoples in these spaces.