Artist Statement
Documentation of a Non-Dane reimagines how we engage with documentation. While governments enforce rigid systems that often disadvantage marginalized communities, BIPOC cultures document themselves through food, memories, stories, and shared practices. Chef Amanda Yee’s deportation from Copenhagen to Berlin during the rise of anti-Black and anti-Chinese sentiment shows how state systems can erase lives that don’t conform to sanctioned narratives. In contrast, this series highlights how BIPOC communities preserve their histories. Objects become artifacts, and memory, often invoked through food, transcends state-controlled records. By unpacking both literal and metaphorical baggage, Documentation of a Non-Dane explores how memory, objects, and food form a living archive, reflecting the resilience of displaced individuals. Through video, photography, and an installation built from packing materials, this work challenges the official gaze, showing that these personal acts of documentation carry cultural significance no system can erase.
The Blues Woman, 2018