Above: scanned ID Label from my job as an Art Handler.

Ed Libris is an “auto-archive” by Edny Jean Joseph.

This is where my work lives & where it leaves the studio. “EL” is a catalog and a conversation. Explore the records, read the notes, and reach out if you want to bring one home.

IBrooks c.22 for PAMMTV

“iBrooks (2022) by Edny Jean Joseph, transforms an 18th-century engraving of a slave ship’s floorplan into binary code, the lime-green zeros and ones drawing a direct line from the brutality of the Atlantic slave trade to the racism of the digital age.”

Highlighted in “Haitian artists in the spotlight” Art Basel's Article c.2024

By Rob Goyanes

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Additionally, Presented 'iBrooks' at the TONO Festival, 2024: Showcasing digital narratives at Centro de Cultura Digital.

“The Spectacle” in Where there is power for Oolite Arts.

“The Spectacle” c.20

This piece grew out of a pair of small collages I made in the wake of the 2020 protests. I was processing what it meant for violence to be constantly staged in front of us as news and as performance.

In one collage, I reimagined a white police officer as a ferocious bull, armed with a long club and charging full force. Opposite him, I placed a young Black matador, with a comperable presence with added defiance. By pulling from the ritual of the bullfight, I wanted to flip the spectacle. reframing the black presence not as prey but as one ready to neutralize an oppressive force.

For me, this piece is about how these encounters are consumed as theater, public record and as images circulated endlessly.

Organized by Amanda Bradley and René Morales

The Allegory Mural: Public Art at The Underline.
Brickell, Miami.

“The Allegory” mural at The Underline in Brickell, Miami.

This 77-foot mural in Brickell is about transformation. I looked at Henry Flagler’s vision of Miami, but I also wanted to bring light to the immigrant “gandy dancers”, some bahamian, hence the color scheme. It was a shoutout to who actually laid the tracks that made that vision real. The mural is a way to honor both the myth and the labor of the workers.

This mural started with what was already there: boarded windows, bolted doors, and a “No Trespassing” sign. All of them felt like familiar obstacles we grow up navigating. I didn’t want to cover them up. I wanted to scale them.

The composition plays on Plato’s Cave. People stuck in the dark because no one told them to question what they see. But in my version, they break that script. They climb together and they make it out.

Also featured on Architectural Digest

Ultra Permanent c.23
for Oolite Arts + Walgreens

Inspired by Ultra Sheen and perm products in old Black magazines, this album explores Black identity and the process of "straightening out" or “maintaining” black ideas to create a unified expression.

See more about the Walgreens Instalation at Oolite Arts

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