a tactile meditation on the ways in which communities navigate loss, collective forgetting, and the tension between remembrance and disappearance.

Celeste Shimoura Goedert is an emerging artist who grew up on unceded Anishinaabe land colonially known as Southeast Michigan. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Social Theory & Practice from the University of Michigan in 2017 and is currently an MA candidate at the Burren College of Art. Her work has appeared in various community and public art projects in Detroit, Ann Arbor, and Los Angeles.

Situating her work in printmaking and sculptural practices, she explores the intersections of grief, inherited trauma, cultural amnesia, and resistance to the pervasive forces of capitalism and consumerism. Celeste sees her practice as a tactile meditation on the ways in which communities navigate loss, collective forgetting, and the tension between remembrance and disappearance.

Through her practice, she seeks to evoke both a reverence for grief rituals and a critical reflection on the systems that shape our understanding of self and belonging.