Somewhere Above the Earth and Beneath God (I Found Home)
Shabez Jamal
Somewhere Above the Earth and Beneath God (I Found Home) explores the Black vernacular (space/photographs/objects) as a site of preservation and self-realization for Black people of Queer experience. Within this body of work, Shabez Jamal explores the disseminated city of Kinloch, Missouri through the Black home and its interior. Jamal engages in a practice of Worldmaking, which is defined by Nelson Goodman as the creation of spaces or worlds “from worlds already on hand; the making is a remaking”. Throughout the work, Jamal cites their grandmother’s vast archive and home-making practice as integral to their own and engages with a myriad of mediums such as photography, sculpture, and acts of performance so as to recognize the relevance the vernacular archive has to the disappearing city.
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