ABOUT

Carmen Bunche is an interdisciplinary artist based in Greenville, South Carolina, working across abstract painting and experimental video. Her practice examines the obscuring and softening of historical narratives, exploring how histories are distorted, concealed, or partially revealed over time.

Through abstraction, Bunche creates a visual language rooted in subtlety where meaning is never fully fixed or immediately accessible. Her work draws viewers in through layered compositions and seductive surfaces, while quietly holding the weight of what is hidden beneath. This tension reflects the ways dominant narratives often mask more complex and overlooked histories.

Bunche considers her work an evolving self-archive, shaped by her ongoing engagement with Black histories and the process of learning them. Rather than presenting direct statements, her work operates through suggestion, inviting viewers to look closer, question what is visible, and consider what remains unseen.

Her practice opens a space where past and present collapse into one another, asking viewers to reflect on their relationship to history and the narratives they inherit, uphold, or challenge.