Warsame Isse Headshot

Warsame Isse

Warsame Isse

Warsame Isse is a Somali Diasporic Multimedia artist based in Tiohtià:ke/ Montreal. He Graduated from Concordia University with two Bachelors in Communication Studies, and Western Society and Culture (2021). His practice deals with finding new ways to visualize and archive the more ineffable aspects of memory, language and the Black Diasporic experience. Using microscopy he creates surreal images of dried water droplets to visually archive memories. He incorporates Morse code in his soundscapes to depict the nuance of translated words or to incorporate omitted sections of the recorded conversation. He aims to use these abstract Afrosurrealist methods to create new forms of representing the emotions and experiences that cannot be fully expressed in words.