Runnie
Exuma
Exuma
Her curatorial practice and research work are vested in Caribbean and North African/Mediterranean geometries and aesthetics. She specializes in histories of racial slavery, debt, and forced labor; aesthetics and performance; and themes of migration, displacement, and dislocation. Experimenting around material, motion, and form, her work expounds on black compositional movement, corporeal refusal(s), and performance architectures foregrounded in somatic pratice, ritual, and trance.
More recently, she has worked as research assistant to Professor Saidiya Hartman, and holds image/filmic work experience at the New York Times. She has also co-curated and organized group exhibitions and symposia between Princeton, New York, and Paris. Currently, she is a doctoral student at Princeton University in anthropology.
She holds a BA from L’institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po), and a BA from Columbia University in comparative literature. For her work at Columbia and Sciences Po, she was awarded the New York Times Scholarship, the Émile Boutmy Scholarship, and Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship.
An amorous poet, story-keeper, and drop of sun under the earth, she is crafting love letters to the land where her ancestors know her name.
CV available on request. Please contact re2720 [at] princeton [dot] edu for all inquiries.