Ohio Shorts 2025

Dejiah Archie-Davis (b. 1997, Cleveland, Ohio) is a multidisciplinary artist who explores the intersections between self-identity and history by utilizing mixed media, photography, and video. Archie-Davis narrates experiences from observational and recollective memory. She engages her subjects with the exploration of spiritual and divergent connections, while emphasizing the influence of environmental transformation. While exploring with color and patterns, she creates space and depth within her pieces. Images are scaled and textured, while her collages are remixed into repetitive moments that build upon themselves until the original source is broken down or barely recognizable. By using this technique in her work, Archie-Davis creates dialogue between the familiarity and uncertainty of Black sociality and futurisms. 

Artist statement
While examining history and experimenting through collage, I find ways to deconstruct the past, to define existential cycles through repetitive images and rearrangement. Through my artwork, I build a connection between visibility and absence, while layering profiles of color or patterns that are often challenged with a multimedia technique. By reconceiving my concept of memory and sensory, I am able to create a distortion between space and time.