Moving Still, 2021
Trécha Gay Jheneall
These images are apparitions of reprieve from the remote navigation of what became the new life/living. The consciousness of proximity, movement, and belonging is explored through the sensory invocations of gathering and dance/ing. Through this agency, music invites us to perform in scéance — under the orchestration of Afro diasporic rhythmic incantations that momentarily enjoin our bodies as one. The circumambient art is deliberate in illuminating the Black diasporic histories and present - the impetus for movement; a call and response to action, to pause, and to the ensemble.
I am curious that freedom is certain when we gather our limbs to recall—
An invocation to perform in the mystery of rhythmic anticipation.
For what has yet come to pass, is passing still.
While stillness is symbolic of now, movement is illuminating.
Trécha Gay Jheneall (b. 1988) is a fluid Jamaican visual and performance artist currently living in New Orleans, LA. Their work engages mediums of screen printing, installation, performance, film, and video.
Through consolidating personal and collective memories, and antecedents of Afro-Caribbean origin, Trécha’s work serves as a conduit for communal movement away from archipelagic plantation realities and toward a future liberatory consciousness.
Trécha studied Interdisciplinary Studio Art at Marylhurst University in Oregon and is currently pursuing their graduate degree in Studio Arts at the University of New Orleans in Louisiana.