And I Belong and We Belong by Rene Matich

AND I BELONG AND WE BELONG.

RENE MATICH (MATIĆ), CONCEPTUAL ARTIST, CSM.

My work explores the intersections of my own identity as a queer womxn of colour, aiming to expose, combat and question power relations and structures within the art world and society more widely. My work is interdisciplinary, drawing from a wide range of references to bring to light (or dark) the fated conflicts and contradictions that one encounters while navigating the world in a body like my own.

This particular work is entitled ‘And I Belong and We Belong (flag)’ I made it to represent and give power to otherness and living from the diaspora. I suppose it stands in protest of the Black British body politic in the sense that it asks for infinite forms of the black British identity and the right to autonomy and free agency over one’s own Black British experience.