about cher
Cher is a multidisciplinary artist and dancer based in Brooklyn, NY. She is currently an MFA candidate in Digital Interdisciplinary Art Practice at the City College of New York, working across performance, sculpture, sound, and video. Rooted in Black feminist thought and Ghanaian spiritual traditions, her practice examines the body as a spiritual, political, archival, and relational site. She explores what it means to return to the body, physically and spiritually, seeking to remember what the body has been conditioned to suppress or forget. Her work also examines the ongoing deconstruction and reconstruction of her relationship to spirit, community, and self, shaped by cultural and generational trauma, collective grief, and the anxieties that accompany existing in a Black body in America.
Treating her mediums as tools for listening, questioning, connection, and liberation, making becomes a way to remain in relation to ancestors, community, and the present while allowing the creation of the work to guide how she shows up for and moves through the world. She also explores how digital media, movement, and sound can transform her lived experiences into immersive, expressive, and visceral encounters, shifting passive making and viewing into embodied understanding.
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