Diamond Stingily (b. 1990, Chicago, IL) is an artist and writer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. A focused conceptualist, her work is based in sculpture and video. In sculpture, Stingily carefully, animistically, recontextualizes everyday materials. Weathered wooden doors, chain link fence, and braided hair become living, symbolic sites for reflection. In video, Stingily brings the same techniques, utilizing domestic spaces as a starting point and interweaving fictional, historical and autobiographical narratives. Stingily’s video Sandra’s Walk (2016) is a portrait of her mother descending a staircase in her home–an antecedent is Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2 (1912). Similarly reduced, abstracted, and powerful, Sandra’s Walk is an slow, tender gesture that encapsulates an intimate moment. A series of loops, the video starts and ends on a footstep. In the words of the artist “I think my mother is stronger than what she appears because she's Black, disabled and she's still here, watching her walk makes me realize I have to keep going as well."

SCREEN: DIAMOND STINGILY is organized by Marco Kane Braunschweiler.