Rosa Johan Uddoh
She experiments within the area of sound work, live performance and sculptures. She explained that she's interested in radical self love through exploring objects.For example, she researched common racist comments that women had to endure, "Black women are made for creating tiles off their thighs", this interested her to explore if it would actually work. She opened up a workshop where women could experience the so called tradition. She got them to lay clay on their thighs and in the drying process talk about their experiences with racism and other common issues. She originally started this off with her mom, but once she knew it worked she expanded the concept to more people to get knowledge of it out into the open. This wasn't the first time she had experimented with clay. Before she has made dinnerware out of her own body and gained response from hosting a dinner party using the dinnerware. She said that this came from the idea of clay being a presence and turning meaningful based off who has owned it previously. The more recent piece of the "Thigh Tiles", gave her physical work and connections through the other women's views. Now all the tiles are displayed on a roof structure, exhibiting it in context of with other artists works themed on race.
Furthermore, she has also delved into live performances. For instance she experimented with pantomime, on the theme of the Windrush Scandal showing depression. A week later, mixed race, Meghan Markle joined the British Royal family which shows progression and inspired Rosa to create more work to gain more recognition for the cause. She also did a performance based of the thought, "Who are we as a couple", she explained that as a child she felt pressured into straightening her afro hair to fit in. To show this to an audience she played the sound of the process to the audience, making a personal experience into one to be shared and recognised by many. Her work shows a reaction towards a cause similar to Montserrat and shows that a powerful subject produces strong work.
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