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Leila Weefur

Leila Weefur (He/They/She) is an artist, writer, and curator based in Oakland, CA. Through video and installation, their interdisciplinary practice examines the performativity intrinsic to systems of belonging. The work brings together concepts of sensorial memory, abject Blackness, hyper surveillance, and the erotic. Weefur is a recipient of the Walter & Elise Haas Creative Work Fund and the MSP California Black Voices Project. Weefur has worked with local and national institutions including The Wattis Institute, McEvoy Foundation, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, SFMOMA, Museum of the African Diaspora, and Smack Mellon. Weefur is a lecturer at Stanford University.

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1 articles from Leila Weefur

Two Black people sit inside a carriage, dressed in period attire. They both look out the window on the left pensively, the person on the far left - who wears a bonnet and floral dress - has their left hand on the right hand of the person on the right, who is wearing a red overcoat and appears to be portraying Frederick Douglass.

Essays

Shaping Time

by Leila Weefur