LaChaun Moore

Fiber, Land, Installation

LaChaun Moore engages fiber as a living archive, reworking inherited perceptions of materials bound to Black labor through cultivation and immersive installation. Her environments appear soft and open, inviting reflection while carrying the weight of lineage, agency, and histories often reduced to a commodity.

A land-based interdisciplinary artist, ethnographic fiber farmer, and designer, Moore centers cotton as both material and method. Rooted in the farming of heirloom indigo and naturally colored cotton, and informed by her grandfather’s history of sharecropping in the Jim Crow South, she approaches agriculture as authorship, where research unfolds through cultivation, processing, and construction.

Her practice operates through ancestral veneration, retracing and transforming inherited narratives to create new perspectives on Black diasporic traditions in cloth and fiber. Incorporating found and inherited garments, textiles, and familial remnants, she positions fiber as a site of memory and reorientation.

Moore’s garments function as soft sculptures, abstract body-like forms that hover between presence and absence. Suspended, draped, or lightly structured, they distort and echo the human figure, casting shadows that animate the surrounding space. These forms feel at once tender and uncanny, creating atmospheres that are grounded yet subtly surreal.

Through nnia farm, she advances cultivation as artistic practice and a sustained commitment to material sovereignty. By situating plant, body, and labor in direct relation, she creates immersive environments where material history becomes physically felt. Rooted in the soil as both source and structure, her work gestures toward alternative futures, where land, lineage, and form operate as sites of reverence, continuity, and repair.

Moore’s work has been presented in exhibitions and interdisciplinary contexts that explore material histories, agriculture, and Black diasporic fiber traditions.