Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley

Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (pronouns she/they) is a Berlin-based artist who graduated from Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2019. Brathwaite-Shirley works predominantly in animation, sound, performance and video game development. The artist explores voices that (en)counter miss-representation, exclusion and mainstream erasure; with a focus on Black and Trans communities. Through this approach, the artist both archives and anticipates narratives outside of the mainstream, so as to overcome the harms of tokenization and erasure. By engaging the visitor-player through most of their installations, Brathwaite-Shirley examines how individual choices are as critical as collective, political responsibility in the context of marginalisation. Brathwaite-Shirley’s work has been presented internationally, with recent exhibitions and commissions including The Rebirthing Room, Studio Voltaire, London (2024); I'm Not Doing This for the Likes, Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland (2024); I CAN’T FOLLOW YOU ANYMORE, Factory International, Manchester (2023); I Can’t Take This Step For You, Helsinki Biennial (2023) and Pirating Blackness, HAU Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin (2021).