'A Sequence for Squeezing’ opened on the one-year anniversary of a bad car accident the artist spent months recovering from.
,” she says. “What I love about this show is that I feel new to my own practice. I can see myself letting go of conceptions I had around what an artist’s practice looks like and just having fun, delighting in looking and spending time with people. I’m allowing the pictures to happen rather than staging everything and working from a strict idea.”
Working with Polaroids, Naima began making sequences of her friends eating sensual fruits as well as her fiancée Sable peeing in the desert of Joshua Tree in San Bernardino, California. “I had seen a picture by Catherine Opie where someone was full frontal peeing on the side of the road and I love that picture, but I also like going hikes and peeing in the forest,” she says. “It’s also about freedom. I see men peeing in public all the time but it’s not that easy for women to do.
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