born in 1994, Washington, D.C ; lives and works in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Souleye Fall is a Senegalese-American artist who makes videos, sculptures, sounds, paintings and situations that consider feeling and body knowledge as agents of escapism. He uses his experience in cosplay, world building, speculative fiction found in gameplay and manga as a way to conceptualize immersive settings. His works questions how systems of power condition reality and how black diasporas navigate, reimagine, and refigure them in order to adapt. His practice is rooted in improvisation, material iteration, and malleable structures. He works with videos on monitors, cardboard, clothing and wood that are frequently salvaged or recycled. Through using methods like weaving and sewing he threads together and binds the universes he combines. Fall is fascinated with the ways art could be embedded in everyday life. He activates common materials to create strategies and backdrops for joy and immersive experiences. Fall echoes the virtual and the physical as a way to source the black imaginary.
