Lick Of Tongue, Rub Of Finger, On Soft Wound - Keisha Scarville spent a
much of his life tracing the travel routes between the
Caribbean and America in order to study his own lineage. Seeking to understand
how notions of belonging and identity are formed and structured, its
image practice visualizes the latent narratives inscribed in the thresholds of the
memory across generations. \n \nThis first publication of Scarville
presents itself as a sprawling and hypnotic visual essay, interweaving
evocatively the artist's striking black and white photographs
with archive images, book passages, collages, texts
personal and film stills. Between practice and archives, Scarville
uses the form of the artist's book to reflect on what it means to create
new genealogies by disrupting conventional and linear histories.
The result is a journey through a multiplicity of personal and
historical accounts of the black diaspora. With this book, Scarville reflects on a
process of becoming shaped by the diasporic imagination of Black people across
the world. \n \nAccompanied by a text by the poet and author Harmony Holiday.
