anaiis

Super! presents anaiis on March 18, 2026 in Main Room.

In a 1994 edition of *Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations*, the renowned educator, author, theorist, and activist bell hooks wrote, “The function of art is to do more than tell things as they are—it is to imagine what is possible.” Her words evoke an innate sense of wonder, the way truth is often stranger than fiction. While hooks inscribes the meaning of art on her pages, the Franco-Senegalese artist anaiis (whose name is lowercase in homage to hooks) translates this ethos into sound. On her forthcoming album *Devotion & The Black Divine*, the tracks overflow with emotional clarity and a growing sense of self-discovery.

Not towards a place, but towards being. anaiis seems to engage in a dialogue with the reverence of nature, acknowledging our own divinity, and therefore our wholeness, at the heart of both chaos and beauty. She shapes…