SHAKIRRA MAE

How To Survive

Following on from Shakirra Mae's solo show in 2019 about being alive, and facing that reality for all its joy, heartache and suffering – How To Survive is a reaction to the current climate we experience.

From the social and political uprising which we saw in America and throughout the world with retaliation against government, police and state - to acts of intimacy in a time where physical togetherness has been hindered and deemed unsafe.

How To Survive also speculates on the human condition of just living, and all the earthly laws that come with it. Birth, joy, love (if you’re lucky), suffering, intimacy, vulnerability, grief...

How To Survive is a communication of deep inner work and reflection to outer, tangible language through the history of second hand cuttings and found objects, aided by found words and songs. How To Survive is about being alive, and trying to survive it.