Exploring themes of race and gender, the artist uses her own identity to re-evaluate the socio-political structures and conditions that surround contemporary black female sexuality and physicality. Using a combination of figurative and abstract mark-making, Demosthene constructs alternative landscapes to present the heroines of her practice and to re-examine her own sense of self. The artist explains: ‘For me, my art has been a peeling away of layers of preconceived ideas; much in the way a snake sheds its skin, this slow shedding process can be viewed as a continual rebirth of my identity.’ She was a recipient of the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant in 2011. Exhibitions include Invisibilité Ostentatoire, Habitation Clément, Le François (2017); Échos imprévus – Turning Tide, Mémorial ACTe, Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe (2016–17) and Rush20: 1995–2015, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation, New York (2015).