YEAR ONE: AROUND THE SUN
zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal
Pistil
Orange Gewürtztraminer
Middlebrow | 2025, michigan
zakkiyyah najeebah dumas o’neal is a Chicago-born, London-based visual artist working across image making, video, photo, installation, and sound. Her work engages with notions of the erotic, histories of the camera, chance encounters, interiority, and queer beingness, as an exercise at “evading capture”. Closely considering the nuances that arise in her quest for "aliveness", her work seeks to locate poetics, paradoxes, beauty, and ambiguity in complex states of being specific to Black femme embodiment. Ultimately, she intends for her work to encourage ways of being and feeling beyond the systems we inhabit.