Colorism is a mixed-media installation using video, photography, tactile elements, and montage to explore how racial categorizations and colorism shape opportunities, privileges, and prejudices. Rooted in the global oppression of people with darker skin tones, the work examines how colonial histories, scientific classifications, and social structures have upheld the imagined superiority of light skin.

The work is grounded in historical realities. Most people are not white, yet white colonialism began in the fifteenth century and expanded to cover over 80 percent of the globe by the twentieth century. Colonial systems imposed genocide, slavery, and immigration barriers that privileged whiteness. Supported by Christian doctrine and colonial governance, these systems polarized whites and non-white peoples, defining the latter as "other."

Colorism invites audiences to engage with personal, structural, and global histories. Drawing on arts-based research, the installation fosters critical dialogue, challenges racial constructs, and questions who defines beauty, civilization, and belonging. Through interaction and reflection, viewers are encouraged to imagine a world beyond racial hierarchies.