Oriana Koren is an artist-researcher-speculatist working at the intersection of language and optical technologies.
Their photography and writing centers the perspectives of colonized people and historically exploited communities, and, for the last decade, they have worked to dismantle revisionist histories around the cultural contributions African descendants have made in building American culture.
Oriana is a founding member of the Authority Collective, founder and curator of the Lit List, and currently a member of the Candor Collective.
Interested in the intersection of race, class, and food, Underground Chefs of South Central is an exploration of black culinary creativity and ingenuity.
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