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Forever Your Girl
Forever Your Girl
Super 8mm Color
8 minutes
2022

Forever Your Girl acts out the loss of childhood innocence and desire through a hypersexualized subject attempting to ride a carousel kiddie ride. Black girlhood is often an accelerated path to becoming an adult where innocence and bodily agency are denied and any attempts to return are simultaneously deemed inappropriate and unobtainable. While inspired by soft-porn aesthetics, it defies the anticipated imagery and familiar mood of pornographic content. The scenes are similarly disorienting with flashing lights, glamor aesthetics, and slow repetitive actions.

Assistant Director: Lucas Kane
Lighting: Darresa Rodriguez
Music: C. Spencer Yeh

Screenings/Shows

Touch Me on the Inside and Call Me By Name, solo exhibition curated by Sarah-Tai Black, PLATFORM Centre, 2023

American Gurl, curated by Kilo Kish and Zehra Ahmed, Hauser & Wirth, LA, 2023

BAM Screening, programed by Melissa Lyde and Stephanye Watts, 2023

When I Am Empty, Please Dispose of Me Properly, group exhibition curated by Jenny Gerow, BRIC, 2023