Boz Deseo Garden’s practice engages Afropessimism to position transatlantic slavery as the unconscious thread between knowledge production and psychoanalytic modes of enjoyment. Garden’s presentation at Liste continues their interrogations of the dramaturgy between the politics of desire, philosophies of property, and archival studies. Through an aesthetics of secrecy and performance, Garden presents the readymade objects of their practice as both indeterminate traces and banal spectacles of racial slavery’s enduring effects.

Boz Deseo Garden (b. 1997, Monterey) is an artist and theorist working in Los Angeles. Solo and duo exhibitions include Petrine, Paris; Timeshare, Los Angeles; and Jargon Projects, Chicago. Selected group exhibitions and workshops include Final Hot Desert, London; Heidi, Berlin; and Bergen Kunsthall. They hold a BFA from CalArts and an MFA from UCLA.