Oshun’s Honey Flow

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“Oshun’s honey flow is a work commissioned by Roehrs & Boetsch gallery for their part of in-app exhibition FitArt – Female Body. It is an invitation to connect with our divine feminine energy and to practice self-love in the spirit of Osunality, a sex-positive and African-centered paradigm coined by Nkiru Nzegwu in 2010 in support of postcolonial and non-phallocentric views of sex.

The work explores ancestral data imprinted in bodies and diasporic interrelations between Oshun – the Yoruba deity of rivers, love, sensuality and fertility –, the Jamaican legends of River Muma, as well as dancehall culture and its female dance moves. These narratives establish an empowering way we can choose to emancipate ourselves – through the body – from the shame associated with female sexuality in Judeo-Christian cultures.

The river images have been taken at Reach Falls in Jamaica – where Juliette is partly originating from. She appears in the video alongside dancers from Jamaica and the UK : Mama Blazzaz, Racquel Monteith, Jess Baddie and Sammie Jo Jackson.

Video assistance by Pancho Cautiion.