Bloc Billboard: Jameisha Prescod
21 March - 26 June 2024
Free & Open to All
Billboard version of On Black Pain by Jameisha Prescod
We are delighted to present a new audio-visual billboard piece On Black Pain by artist-filmmaker Jameisha Prescod. Originally a video essay commissioned by Unlimited, the work centres Black experiences in relation to illness, disability and identity. Jameisha has re-worked moving-image elements to create a composite group portrait, with close-ups of eyes and faces. Threading between them are the artist’s own words that seek to root and to liberate their individual and collective chronic pain, through invocation.
Each of the featured individual’s stories of chronic pain and its relation to Blackness were record and can be heard in the audio above.
Jameisha Prescod FRSA is an artist-filmmaker, producer and writer from South London. Specialising in documentary, experimental film, video journalism and immersive visual art, they are driven by authentic storytelling and apply creative digital techniques to uncover powerful human experiences. Jameisha is also the founder and creative director of You Look Okay To Me, the online space for chronic illness. They explore the social and cultural aspects of living with a chronic condition through visual forms.
Jameisha is also a writer, an associate artist at Forma Arts & Media and a trustee for London Arts in Health Forum.