MOVING IMAGE

Mother Daughter Day

Mother Daughter Day is a tender moving-image work that traces intimacy, care, and inheritance across generations through a shared day of ritual—tea time, play, grooming, and adornment. Drawing from 19th-century French neoclassical aesthetics, the work reframes a historically Eurocentric visual language by foregrounding Black feminine presence and African Diasporic traditions, particularly Caribbean practices such as head wrapping that informed neoclassical modes of dress and self-presentation. As both artist and curator, Irabor integrates featured paintings by Noahamin Taye within the film, expanding the piece into a layered dialogue between moving image, fine art, and diasporic cultural memory.

Medium
Moving image

Selected Exhibitions
Beyond the Frame: Black Creativity Unbound, Group Exhibition — Loiter Gallery, Long Beach, CA (2025)