Passage/way/s
Passage/way/s is a mixed media installation that centers cultural and folkloric practices of fugitivity and marronage. It is a meditation on the liberatory legacies of enslaved Black people and the various ways they imagined liberation through escape, refusal, collective care, and resistance.
Through ritual performance, sculpture, paintings, and research doodles, Valoris weaves historical records and oral histories into speculative cartographies. The artist engages in immersive and embodied study of Black fugitivity through small practices of zine–making, poetry, movement meditations, and micro-paintings. Inspired by these daily acts of study, reflection, and ancestral reverence—Passage/way/s reimagines sacred geometries of the truck patch, night sky, and waterways.
Passage/way/s is about world-building, weaving discarded scraps into sacred blueprints, navigating the in-between, and listening to the echoes that call us home.