Bikoro uses colonial archives, analogue photographs, audio recordings, court documents and books, to reconstruct imaginary landscapes of forgotten histories of Black feminist revolt & liberation across the African diaspora. Their investigations since 2009, decolonise colonial technologies of recordings and improve practices of consent, they use a collage of street photography, painting, AI drawing and scripting to create worlds of black queer fabulation, grief, reparation and empowerment.
Living and working between the UK, Gabon, Brazil, Kenya, Senegal, Germany and South Africa, the images are collected and transformed since 2009 as a series of visual collages to investigate lesser-known histories of the women heroines that changed the world despite their forced disappearance out of history’s narrative.
Bikoro is a visual artist and sometimes curator, writer, teacher and holistic practitioner. They have exhibited widely in the last 20 years.