Stephanie A. Kimou is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses photography, video, assemblage, and performance, rooted in the use of the body and mind as sites for decolonization. She explores the intersections of identity and inferiority, as well as dreaming of modalities for postcolonial healing.

Her projects draw from lived experience to confront systems of internalized oppression and designed inferiority:

To Tame a Witch addresses the ways powerful women are diminished and suppressed.

The Colonizer’s Trash examines the inferiority complexes inherited through French colonialism in her homeland of Côte d’Ivoire.

Black Galaxy reclaims joy and playfulness as acts of resistance, particularly through collaborative collage-making with her child.

Me Me offers a vulnerable meditation on postpartum depression and maternal identity.

Driven by a desire to archive personal revelations for her child and others, Stephanie’s work invites audiences to confront inherited contradictions, reflect on self hatred, and imagine liberated futures beyond capitalism.

@stephanieakimou across all platforms.