“In Memoriam of the Past”

In Memoriam of the Past is a maximalist installation spanning painting, music, sculpture, and writing, rooted in Anderson’s interior world and his childhood bedroom—a site where multiple selves have been formed and shed.

At its core is the music project “Redeeming the time… b coz the dayz r evil”, produced by collaborator J3sstar (fka J-Love). The installation acts as a tactile extension of the record, translating its emotional and spiritual terrain into physical space.

“Hands of the Father”, a sculptural seating work, anchors the installation, inviting visitors to rest and be held, evoking a return to Eden through care, joy, and protection. Four paintings trace Anderson at different stages of his life, forming a fragmented self-portrait across time.

The work also includes “Free My Nigga Big Adz”, which addresses spiritually induced psychosis and the commodification of Black trauma, and Extra-Medium, a 192-page magazine made with Hozen Britto and Aziz Tarkhan, using interviews and essays to explore interiority through artistic practice.

The installation operates as both sanctuary and workshop, offering rest and refuge while critiquing the commodification of Black trauma and a capitalist system that rarely allows Black bodies to rest, instead extracting and repackaging exhaustion and struggle as value.