Diana, Diana
Total run time: 10:25
HD video, stereo, color
2022
In this fractured double-portrait, I superimpose the story of Princess Diana onto images and narratives drawn from my mother’s life. Through palimpsests of voices and images, my own dance performances, and archival interviews with the princess just before her divorce, Diana, Diana meditates on iconography and celebrity, globalization and colonization, and women’s shared struggle for autonomy across class lines.
Installation:
The Spaces Between, group exhibition at Ruffin Gallery — Charlottesville, May 22 - June 18, 2021
Diana, Diana, thesis exhibition at Ruffin Gallery — Charlottesville, April 26 - 30, 2021
Screening history:
New York Film Festival — Lincoln Center, 2022
Icons — Web & Las Laguna Gallery, 2021
Awards:
Madison Lane Charitable Trust Visual Arts Prize — 2021