Otis Mensah is a writer and interdisciplinary artist whose work spans across fields of literature and sound, exploring the aesthetic fabric of language and cadence to evoke ethereal portraits of the body, family and race. Drawing from a rich lineage of Black musicality that informs their poetic-sonic practice, Mensah derives multidimensional text from childhood, dreaming and nature. By queering and subverting biblical scripture and parable, Mensah’s work exercises magical realism that strives to muddy the waters of memory and archival material. Mensah lives and works in Berlin.

As of October 2025