Seanna Latiff is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the entanglement of mental health, cultural displacement, and connection in the face of systemic oppression. Rooted in her experience as an immigrant from Trinidad and Tobago, her practice navigates fractured narratives of identity, memory, and belonging—grappling with the emotional toll of colonial violence and generational estrangement.
Latiff constructs layered visual counter-archives that blend archival materials, family history, and diasporic mythologies. Drawing from Caribbean folklore and the intersecting traditions of African, Indigenous, and East Asian diasporas, she reimagines ancestral knowledge as a source of both healing and resistance.
Latiff explores how grief, mental illness, and dissociation manifest under systems of erasure—and how storytelling can offer paths to transformation. Her process is both intuitive and research-driven, merging personal narrative with broader cultural histories. At the core of her practice is a desire to restore connection: to the self, to lineage, and to communities shaped by survival. By transmuting inherited trauma into shared visual experiences, she creates space for reflection, empathy, and collective healing.