Daid Roy is a multi-disciplinary artist known for their sculptures, paintings and photographs. Their practice is centered around the ideation and creation of high-powered, functional sculptures. Roy founded Black NASA, an alias that hosts workshops, makes music, and embodies their ethos that life and art are inextricably linked.
In a recent project, Roy reshapes and subverts the notions of capitalistic and extractive space travel. S.H.R.O.O.M. (Sustainable Hybrid Rocket Optimization with Organic Materials) uses a mycelium-based organic rocket propellant. It's a foray into a future where space travel is made possible through sustainable material. Through experiments like these, Roy transforms rockets into objects of play, symbols of a utopian future.
For Art Basel Miami, Roy will present a Showroom of Possibilities. Borne from the same ethos that inspired their sustainable rocketry, the artist speculates alternative modes of transportation. Mining the emotional cogency of altruistic scientific advancement, Roy showcases paintings, drawing, and sculpture surrounding the creation of Speculative Vehicles as an alternative to the fuel-powered cars and ethically ambiguous electric vehicles that are the norm.
Half artistic interpretation, half topological study, Roy’s two dimensional explorations lay a formal groundwork, gestural marks connoting movement and speed. The paintings and drawings are a diagrammatic and conceptual framework for the formulation of their vehicles. In the Showroom, a large oil painting will be displayed alongside a new series of drawings, shown as ideological predecessors to the Speculative Vehicles.
Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, Roy is intimately familiar with the social barriers posed by access to transportation and has observed firsthand the impacts of the use of pollutive vehicles on the environment. This series of works draws directly on these ongoing experiences, particularly the frequent and devastating wildfires in Southern California.
The Speculative Vehicles posit that sustainability necessitates accessibility and therefore exist at the nexus of aesthetics, function, and craft. By creating these works by hand, Roy returns agency to the user. The works displayed will range from the entirely speculative to the seemingly functional: vehicles that embody the optimism of invention, innovation that benefits society.

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