Warsame Isse

Warsame Isse is a Somali Diasporic Multimedia artist based in Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal. He graduated from Concordia University with a Bachelors in Communication Studies, and another in Western Society and Culture (2021). He is currently pursuing an MA in Media Studies at Concordia University. His practice investigates new ways to visualize and archive the more ineffable aspects of memory, language, and the Diasporic experience. Using microscopy, he creates surreal images of dried water droplets to visually archive memories. He incorporates distorted Morse code in his soundscapes to depict the nuance of translated words or to incorporate omitted sections of recorded conversations. Using Black Technopoetics he creates new forms of representing the emotions and experiences that cannot be fully expressed in words. Warsame Isse intends for his art to empower people to express themselves beyond the capability of language.