London, United Kingdom.


The creative partnership between Raphael 
and Shaneika Asare Simms since 2014.


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Shaneika info

Shaneika Asare Simms is a filmmaker, mother/artist, and researcher based in London. She is currently in the final year of the MRes Art: Moving Image programme at University of the Arts London. Her work explores Blackness, motherhood, and the politics of visibility across digital platforms. 

Drawing from research-creation, documentary practices, and YouTube’s algorithmic landscape, she examines how marginalised identities navigate systems that demand performance, legibility, and disclosure. Shaneika’s moving-image practice foregrounds the domestic as a site of autotheory, using the edit as a method of thinking, refusing, and reclaiming agency.




 Moving Image projects

Do Not Upload (WIP)

info: Do Not Upload is an on-going moving-image work that draws from diaristic video and written reflections to examine the pressures placed on marginalised people to perform visibility. Filmed on a Sony camcorder and Nothing Phone, the piece engages with early video art and the algorithmic gaze. Through rhythm, glitches, pauses, and refusals, the edit becomes a site of lived theorising around Blackness, motherhood, class, and creative labour. The work navigates legibility, opacity, and self-surveillance—revealing the tension between speaking and withholding while insisting on the validity of mess, humour, tenderness, and contradiction.


selected stills and diary notes



Exhibition and Screeing
Date: Dec 9th - 13th 2025
Location: The Good Rice Gallery, London
Project: Do Not Upload
Format: Single-channel video and four A4 pyshical diary notes.

IRL private screening


self shot photo of shaneika 

my links


simms [at] asaresimms [dot] com