kyla carter

kyla carter is a Liberian artist living on Tongva land, working across craft, textiles, film, video installation, and performance to create the ecotone between us and our ancestors; forging new paths for myth-making. Like a root seeking soil that nurtures, their artistic explorations, rituals, and research grow from the deep earth of Black archival memory. Their practice is a reclamation of space—one that cultivates new ways of being, where bodies bend, crack open, and regenerate because they are nourished by the land and the ancestors who whisper through the trees. Their work is rooted in the exploration of Black liberation through kink/BDSM, where the centering of consent, play, shapeshifting, and the healing of trauma in the body meet the honoring of flesh and spirit.