DEATH

Thelonious Stokes (b. 1995) is a contemporary artist whose practice spans painting, performance, and design. His work investigates the relationship between body, history, and space, using performance as a vessel to explore collective memory and the social dimensions of art. Through a disciplined and reflective approach, Stokes constructs works that endure beyond spectacle, positioning the body as both witness and medium in the evolving dialogue between art and society.

Central to his practice is an inquiry into Blackness as a object that dissolves the veil of gravitational order. For Stokes, Blackness operates not as identity alone but as an atmospheric and stabilized presence that calibrates perception, time, and spatial logic. His performances and images trace this field of intensity; the pressure it exerts, the ruptures created, and the possibilities it opens for imagining how bodies move through the world.