Abyssi

CRIB is an immersive installation that swarms the viewer with sculptures, costumes, sounds, and text created by artist and theurgist, Vitche-Boul Ra. A prolific creator whose work is at the forefront of Black Queer Vernacular Craft, Vitche-Boul Ra ushers in a new, trans-humanist dominion within the Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia gallery. In this ever-mutating installation, the artist complicates pop-cultural aesthetics through alien embodiments and highlights the paradoxes that exist between protection, belonging, self-exclusion, and ostracization. CRIB explores the duality of violence and heroics and asks, if internal and external domination are pathways to glory, what is to be said about our society’s fixation on beauty, coolness and Blackness?

Vitche-Boul Ra is a Transhumanist Folk-Theurgist with a BFA in Interdisciplinary Fine Arts (Sculpture concentration) from The University of the Arts [2018]. To develop a physicalized performance practice adjacent to western sculpture, It also studied dance in the UArts School of Dance directed by Donna Faye Burchfield. In Philadelphia, It has shown solo (+collaborative) works at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Vox Populi Gallery, Little Berlin Gallery, and Hightide Gallery.

In New York, Ra performed in Fridman Gallery’s 5th Anniversary Festival and was curated into the Center for Performance Research’s Spring Movement Festival 2018 as well as the New Dance Alliance’s 2019 Performance Mix Festival: 33. In 2021 It has collaboratively worked alongside Moor Mother (Goddess) showing at Pace Gallery (NY), CalArts REDCAT (LA), and The Kitchen (NY).