About

[Photographed by Dot Persica]

Ani Brutus (b. 2004) is a Haitian-Filipino interdisciplinary artist based in Jamaica, New York. Born in the United States, first-generation, Brutus aims to highlight the forces uniting ancestry and the diaspora, by uncovering the crossroads in everyday life. Between the layering and distortion of found objects, Brutus utilizes material culture to document social history within Afro-Caribbean and Luzon diasporic communities. Ani Brutus is an undergraduate student at CUNY Hunter College, where they advance their 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]