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What is called the imagination (from image, magi, magic, magician, etc.) is a practical vector from the soul. It stores all data, and can be called on to solve all our “problems.” The imagination is the projection of ourselves past our sense of ourselves as “things.” Imagination (image) is all possibility, because from the image, the initial circumscribed energy, any use (idea) is possible. And so begins that image’s use in the world. Possibility is what moves us.
—Amiri Baraka, “The Revolutionary Theatre”, Liberator, July 1965
Rafia Santana
RaFia Santana is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist using animated graphics, self portraiture, and music production to soothe the self, bend perception and make jokes.
They also make use of social marketing and fundraising as a means to support and uplift marginalized communities.
RaFia has exhibited their work at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, MoCADA, Tate Britain, and the Museum of the Moving Image. They have been featured in Teen Vogue, Paper Magazine, VICE, Topical Cream Magazine, and other leading publications. They have performed & participated in panels, discussions, and events at Black Portraitures at Harvard University, Pratt Institute’s Department of Digital Arts, Newspace Center for Photography, Afrotectopia at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, & MoMA PS1.
#PayBlackTime, Multi-platform Artist & Entertainer