Muzae Sesay & Alexcia Sundra At The Guardhouse: Attentive Earth Presented By FOR-SITE

Muzae Sesay is a visual artist whose practice focuses on understanding our collective relationship to space, memory, community, and the perceived truths within them. Utilizing skewed perspectives of space and shape collapsed into two-dimensional planes of color, Sesay creates surreal geometric interiors, exteriors, landscapes, and structures, presenting a situation in which to be experienced and explored. Inspired by ideas of cultural reflection developed by questioning the validity of remembrance, his work often depicts worlds created in response to a social introspection and/or an attempt to perceive a shared reality. The work’s goal is to provoke social reasoning and induce the viewer’s agency in the navigation and narration of the imagery. Born in Long Beach, CA, Sesay has exhibited at major venues like the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, and San Jose Institute for Contemporary Arts. His public art projects include several large-scale murals and painted basketball courts in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Alexcia Sundra is an artist and filmmaker who constructs speculative environments that appear to have arrived from alternate timelines. Working across sculpture, film, and installation, she uses design, earthly materials, and familiar objects to make imagined realities tangible.

Her practice engages time, attention, rest, and memory to examine the forces shaping our relationships with the Earth and one another – and to bring what has always been present back into view. Rather than presenting alternative realities from a distance, Sundra builds spaces that allow viewers to inhabit them, however briefly, and envision more liberatory forms of collective life. These ideas move fluidly across her work: as an artist and designer for Venus Blues at Minnesota Street Project, she created an interactive sculptural wall and immersive environment, while her film work includes Into A Space of Love, a magical realist documentary presented by Frieze that traces the legacies of house music rooted in New York’s underground culture.

Her screen credits range from studio productions including Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017), Uncut Gems (2019), and The Matrix Resurrections (2021). Sundra’s work on independent shorts, including Self (2022), Companion (2023), Pop Monsters (2024), and Hope (2026), has received recognition at prominent festivals including BlackStar Film Festival, SFFILM Festival, Seattle Black Film Festival, and the New York African Film Festival. Sundra also served as Director of Alumni Programming at BAYCAT, where she created a screenwriting fellowship for women, LGBTQIA+ creatives, and storytellers of color.