About

Ani Brutus (b. 2004 Nassau County) is a Haitian-Filipino interdisciplinary artist based in Jamaica-Queens, New York. Born in the United States, first-generation, Brutus aims to highlight the spiritual forces uniting ancestry and the diaspora. Through the integration of layered images, mark-making and found objects, Brutus highlights the crossroads and the soul of revolution alive within the mundane. In dream-like ecosystems, she fosters the flames of chaos and clarity, tension and release. Brutus creates portals drawing inspiration from the sacred geometry of Haitian Veves and Adinkdra, often represented in iron infrastructure. Ani Brutus utilizes material culture to document social history within Afro-Caribbean and Luzon diasporic communities. Brutus is an undergraduate student at CUNY Hunter College, where she advances her practice in Studio Arts.

“Each material and medium has spirits of their own. Layering, to me, expresses the realities that exist in tandem. Past, Present, The spiritual and material realms.”

“I have a love for found materials, like fabric scraps and snapped clothes pins. Like these items, we weather and are weathered by the world. All because of weathering, we uncover remnants of our ancestry in everything.”

Ani Brutus

[Photographed by Morvens Regis]