Untitled (Documentary) | Sosena Solomon

Special Residency
Written By Elsewhere Living Museum & Artist Residency

Sosena Solomon (Philadelphia, PA)

Philadelphia Goes Elsewhere Fellowship. June 2019. HD video projection and sound. 5 min 32 secs.

Solomon worked directly with African immigrants based in Greensboro, NC to create a documentary installation in the 2nd floor Glass Forest. The artist worked with the North Carolina African Services Coalition (NCASC) to reach out and document the stories of African women that have resettled in the area. Her video specifically captures the story of a human trafficking survivor from West Africa. Solomon also embeds gold leaf, pigment, and found hair on the walls and ceiling of the room to reference the impact of the African gold trade on today’s diaspora refugees.

Project In Response To: The Glass Forest, FAUX LOCKS

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Sosena Solomon
Sosena Solomon

Sosena Solomon is an award winning social documentary film and multimedia visual artist from Ethiopia. Intuitively selecting subjects and stories, she is particularly interested in spaces of transition and change, acting as a cultural preservationist. Her work, whether presented as a film or an immersive 3-dimensional experience, explores cross sections of various subcultures and communities in flux, carefully teasing out cultural nuances and capturing personal narratives via arresting visual storytelling and cinéma vérité stylings.

During Solomon's residency, she created Untitled (Documentary).

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