RaFia Santana
RaFia Santana is a Brooklyn-born multidisciplinary artist using repetition, self portraiture, and music performance to self-soothe, seek pleasure, and crack jokes throughout their experiences with mental illness, chronic fatigue, sensory overload, and everyday racial violence.
RaFia uses bright saturated colors and rhythmic productions to stimulate energy and attention. They use hashtags & slogans as both memorization practice and call to action. RaFia constructs audio and visual loops that ""breathe"" which simultaneously represent and calm their anxiety. With their compulsion to edit and visualization of the self, RaFia is in full control of their display.
Across all mediums RaFia's focus is rhythm, repeat, rest and reflect.