We’re Magic. We’re Real #3 (These Walls) (2021-present) was presented as a part of Resonance - coinciding with the 61st Venice Biennale In Minor Keys, Resonance was a season of performances, sonic sessions and gatherings organized by The Engine for Art, Democracy & Justice (or EADJ for short),  founded by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Vanderbilt University.

 The performance unfolds along the canal side entrance of Fondazione Giorgio e Armanda Marchesani, a historic palazzetto transformed into a living forum for artistic dialogue throughout the Resonance program. We’re Magic. We’re Real #3 (These Walls) centers hair as an identity marker shared across communities of African descent — a living, embodied archive carried through gesture, presence, and relation.

In Venice, the performance responded directly to the city’s architecture and to the surrounding waters and layered histories that shape the site. Long braids extended into the building connecting Venice’s maritime history to the transatlantic slave economy, today’s Mediterranean migration crisis, and the Black diaspora, evoking themes of connectivity, solidarity, belonging, and ancestral ties.