[VIDEO] “I still do feel like an outsider” Julian KNXX on Black Corporeal and Navigating Space(s)

There is a lingering feeling of intimacy when entering the world of Julian Knxx. The poet and visual artist hands over an invitation to experience the collective psyche and contemplate one's individual experience.

In Black Corporeal, a-three parts body of work, the artist specifically addresses the experience of black bodies navigating space(s), going pass the limitations of the mind and external expectations. This resonates at length with his own experience growing up between different spaces and lands both physically and of the mind having gone through Civil War trauma in his home country Sierra Leone when aged 9. The once introverted child grew up with many questions that shaped his vision and outlook on life now translated into thoughtful poems, quotes and films.

Now aged 34, the London-based artist with the distinctive voice, one made to narrate, takes us through his work and leaves some valuable pieces of advice. Our thoughts are the main designer of our trajectory in life and one should trust themselves into being authentic. He also insists, he is no motivational speaker. Watch the artist explaining how all those elements have affected his artistic vision and outlook on life for the better.