Emmanuelle Massillon (b. 1998, Washington D.C.) is a conceptual artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans sculpture, painting, performance, and sound. Grounded in his experiences growing up in Washington D.C., Massillon examines race, identity, and inner-city culture, often through raw, found, and culturally charged materials. His work draws on African-American music traditions, jazz, R&B, rap, and drill, not only as influence but as living archives of Black resilience and expression. In Drill Music (2022), a trumpet is fused with bullet shells, transforming an instrument of joy and resistance into a meditation on violence, survival, and the inseparability of sound and struggle. Self-Snitching (2023), featuring a taxidermy mouse clutching a microphone, reflects on the entanglement of surveillance, vulnerability, and performance in contemporary culture, blending dark humor with critique. Massillon’s practice resists categorization, instead shifting across media to best articulate his ideas. Whether assembling objects, reworking cultural symbols, or creating immersive environments, his works operate as layered narratives, part protest, part celebration, bridging personal memory with collective histories.