Black On Black is the evasion of reification. In the act of naming and identifying, one is always at risk of becoming a commodity. To understand that we are never in a solid state, forever in flux. And that being is conditioned on a set of relations at any given time. There is the fear that when a name is uttered, the weight of history comes crashing down all at once with it. It engulfs us, freezes us, packages us. Black On Black is riding that fear in the space between knowing. Always coming and going, at the speed of a black hole; Declassified, There are those that name but do not see, and there are those who see me and know they do not have to say shit. They just see The Black On Black.

In collaboration with Algernon Cornelius (2022)

Director, Set Designer, Editor and Camera Operator: Ella Jo Skinner

Music Composition: Algernon Cornelius

Sound Recording and Engineering: Joe Clayton (No Studio)

Assistant of Photography: Christopher Wood

Shoot Assistant: Hilary White

Technician: Owen Herbert

Facilitators: Islington Mill and LGBTQTV

Black on Black (latex, cement, video, sound piece), displayed at M.Zilinskas Art Gallery (Kaunas, Lithuania) as part of Audra Festival (2023)

Performers: Ella Jo Skinner and Lux Sauer

Music Composition: Algernon Cornelius

Curator: Tautvydas Urbelis