Rest In/As Freedom: Kiarita and Black Politics of Liberation

This article discusses works by the U.S. American multidisciplinary artist of Dominican descent kiarita as visual explorations of the political potential of rest. Synthesising various branches of Black studies and decolonial thought, rest is positioned as a means of grieving the past and present trauma of racial capitalism, of evading and ‘un-doing’ its authority over one’s mind and body, and of conceiving an alternative future.