Ada M. Patterson – in conversation with Rachel Hann

Image:Ada M. Patterson, Buchibushi (2019), performance, digital video. Photo: Sharelly Emanuelson. Courtesy: the artist & Copperfield, London.

Staging Decadence Project

Ada M. Patterson (b. 1994, Bridgetown) is an artist and writer based between Barbados, London and Rotterdam. She works with masquerade, performance, poetry, textiles and video, looking at the ways storytelling can limit, enable, complicate or abolish identity formation. Her recent work considers grief, elegy writing and archiving as tools for disrupting the disappearance of communities queered by different experiences of crisis. Recent exhibitions include Life Between Islands: Caribbean-British Art 1950s – Now (2021-22) at Tate Britain.