Keli Safia Maksud is an interdisciplinary artist and writer based in New York. Maksud’s practice traces the intersections of space, power, and memory, through installation, sound, and sculpture. Engaging archival fragments and embodied material processes, her work examines the violence and power embedded within systems of representation and standardization—interrogating how such systems present themselves as universal languages of experience, while denying and othering those whose realities fall outside their constructed sameness.