Out of Office, 2025

Single-channel video, 19 min 10 sec

Edition of 3 + 1 A.P. 

In this deliciously bleak corporate satire, a perceptive but perpetually silenced Office Girl stumbles upon a sinister liquidation scheme. At VILCORP, a villainous corporation steeped in the outdated racism and sexism of the 80s, her warnings fall on deaf ears. She escapes into People Food HQ, the utopian workplace of the future, led by Office Girl’s hero, the charismatic entrepreneur Parsley Peppercorn. At People Food, with its outdoor beanbags and lunchtime yoga, you’re not just an employee; you’re family. But like all families, People Food has its secrets. Beneath the millennial sheen of this sustainable snack startup lies something deeply fishy. Office Girl soon realises that Parsley Peppercorn might be peddling the same time-warped misogynoir as VILCORP, but slicked in Y2K polish. And there is an even darker secret about People Food’s prawn cocktail products lurking just beneath the surface…

Neyinka and the Silver Gong, 2024

Single-channel video, 24 min 30 sec

Edition of 3+ 1 A.P.

“Historical films like Braveheart paint a completely white, completely virtuous picture of precolonial Scotland. This is beautifully disrupted by the 9th century records of the fir gorma. The Old Irish term for Black people, ‘fir gorma’, directly translates as ‘blue men’. References to fir gorma in ancient Irish chronicles are thought by historians to refer to North African people enslaved by Vikings and brought to Ireland and the Scottish Hebrides. As a Black English woman living in Scotland, I’m interested in how this displaced community might have constructed their own Scottish identity. After speculating that some fir gorma escaped captivity, fled to an uncharted island, and formed a clan, my work has taken the form of an extended trailer for a fir gorma fantasy blockbuster. It atmospherically draws on the rousing trailer for Braveheart and its depiction of blue-painted warriors, symbolically connecting the blue people to favourable traits of courage, honour, and chivalric romance.

For Those In Peril On The Sea, 2023

Single-channel video, 8 min 36 sec

Edition of 3 + 1 A.P.

‘Fetissoes’ is the dismissive, condescending word coined by 16th century Portuguese explorers to refer to African religious objects believed to have magical powers, known in English as ‘fetishes’. In Fetissoes, Kialy speculates that a group of enslaved African people have jumped overboard a slave ship. In the water they encounter the master’s tools, European maritime technology such as periscopes and diving suits. With these materials they build fetishes for traditional African water deities. These take the form of wearable, 2 metre tall periscope suits. They invoke the deities’ power and protection by ritualistically wearing the suits and are able to re-cross the Atlantic underwater and return home. ‘For Those in Peril on the Sea’, a short film featuring Jess Paris and an original soundtrack by Not Sarah, depicts the research and development for the periscope suits, advertises them as they were meant to be worn, and depicts the outcome of their failed mission. 

But wait… there’s more! (Lean Six Sigma), 2023

Single-channel video, 2 min 49 sec

Edition of 3 + 1 A.P.

Following a body of research into supervillains of antiquity (colonial merchants, slave traders, and industrialists), the present (billionaire profiteers of extractive neo-colonial practices such as mining and waste dumping), and the future (colonisers of as-yet-unknown territories such as space and the deep sea), Lean Six Sigma speculates on the opulent ornamentation of these villains’ lairs. Lean Six Sigma looks at opulence as a display of oligarchic overindulgence from a privileged few, distorting and multiplying the shapes of extractive industrial machinery, and the interior aesthetics of dictators’ homes and private jets. Lean Six Sigma also celebrates opulence as a means of Black resistance and Black joy. It flickers with formative memories of the artist’s Cameroonian immigrant aunties and uncles’ glamorously decorated homes, and the ostentatious personal styles of Black female rappers, chiefly Lil’ Kim.