How are our identities assembled, and what role do visual, historical, and ideological structures play in who we become? Diallo consistently raises questions that rebuff easy answers.
BlackFlash Magazine Posts
How do you work alongside a lover while still respecting their fundamental difference and ultimate opacity? How do you come together while also staying apart?
In his novel of the same name, science fiction author William Gibson once described pattern recognition as a “gift and a trap,” which is a generous way of saying we search for meaning even when it may or may not exist.
Latest issue
42.3 – Patterns
BlackFlash Winter 2026 “This issue marks a transition for BlackFlash. We’re sunsetting thematic framing (for now) and moving toward a less categorical way of assembling each…
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Call for Board Members
Call for Pitches: “Patterns”
‘Traces’ Issue Launch / Saskatoon
‘Taste’ Issue Launch / Winnipeg
‘Taste’ Issue Launch / Saskatoon
From BlackFlash Expanded
AKA share a recent group chat that centres the collective’s goals, visioning, and future plans.
From the archives
“Resisting complete legibility, his larger-than-life, solitary characters are only accessible to those who take the time to get closer. Only then can viewers make out the figures from blotched brushstrokes, or discern delicately embroidered words that ventriloquize subjects’ thoughts.”