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Diamond Stingily

Diamond Stingily

Diamond Stingily is an artist and actress who was born in 1990 in Chicago, lives and works in New York, and is currently on a residency at the Art Explora foundation, Paris, in collaboration with the Cité internationale des arts. She acted in HBO’s Random Acts of Flyness and was the lead in Martine Syms’s debut feature film, The African Desperate. Photo: Farah Al Qasimi 

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The African Desperate

Artist and filmmaker Martine Syms teamed up with writer and poet Rocket Caleshu to create the 2022 film The African Desperate. Starring the artist Diamond Stingily as Palace, the film received rave reviews for its honest and unflinching portrayal—and parody—of the art world. Mixing genres and proceeding according to Syms’s singular aesthetic vision, The African Desperate leads audiences through a twenty-four-hour period in Palace’s life and into questions about education, romance, race, and more. Syms, Caleshu, and Stingily met with Fiona Duncan to discuss the film’s creation.

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