Renowned for her offering of powerful sociopolitical commentary with an impassioned poetic flair, multidisciplinary artist-activist LaToya Ruby Frazier has dedicated her 20-plus-year career to reviving and preserving forgotten narratives of labor, inequality, gender, and race in the postindustrial era.

“A mystical black bird can fly to hidden dimensions,” the 30-year-old Brazilian artist said in a recent interview.