Alexis Peskine: Power Figures

Alexis Peskine’s work focuses on the complexity of themes impacting people from the African Diaspora and speaks up about the institutional racism and lack of multi-cultural representation in the media and public sphere. His signature pieces are large-scale portraits rendered by the painstaking process of hammering nails of different lengths and diameters, with pin-point accuracy into wood to create breath-taking composite images. The exhibition presents a rich background through his work, in which he explores both the Black Experience and the world of the refugee, forced to exist between fixed boundaries of state and identity.