Erizku engages an Afrocentric perspective in a new body of
photo-based works, which act as a counternarrative to the historically
westernized discourse on African and African American culture.

Central to new works such as HEAT are signifiers rooted
in Trap music and Islam that employ contronyms as a visual and linguistic
device to explore new dimensions in the evolving lexicon on objects, music, and
prose. Erizku combines expropriated and commodified Aethiopean artifacts,
contemporary African American iconography, and references to photography,
media, and image creation. Fire, both as a medium and symbolic, Benu-like
element, serves as a catalyst for metamorphosis and transfiguration, creating a
space for historical interventions, and rejuvenating fossilized concepts and
visual language.