Kyla Carter

Kyla Carter (they/them) is a Liberian-American, Los Angeles based multidisciplinary artist (occupied Tongva land) mainly working with textiles, video, and performance to create bridges between reality and memory, allowing new modes of myth-making to take place. In a world where Black bodies are relentlessly exploited, policed, and violated in ways that deny autonomy and leave Black people perpetually navigating pain and trauma, their work aims to liberate Black bodies by honoring their autonomy and creating a space in which communion with the ancestors can take place. Their lens as a Black, queer, trans nonbinary being informs their work, which is rooted in the exploration of Black liberation through kink and the centering of consent, shapeshifting, the healing of trauma in the body, self love, and death.