Untold Gold

Private View of the African and African Caribbean Design Diaspora (AACDD) exhibition Untold Gold, as part of 100% Design and The London Design Festival.

Exhibition Open
19 - 30 September
11.00 - 8.00pm daily

Private View

Saturday 22 September 2012

6.00pm - 8.30pm

The Bargehouse

Oxo Tower Wharf

Bargehouse Street

London SE1 9PH.

I will be exhibiting the site specific installation, An Imaginary Return, and have curated, Dialogue, a new platform for contemporary African and African Caribbean artists working in clay.

Everyone welcome....

Image: An Imaginary Return 

An Imaginary Return

Influenced by the book, Poetics of Relation by Edouard Glissant, An Imaginary Return explores the triangular transatlantic slave trade, the interwoven relationship and continuing cultural and economic interdependence of Africa and Europe.

Using ceramic, metal, cardboard and collage, An Imaginary Return deals with the object (triangle) as a symbol of an event transformed through the process of re-generation (a copy of a copy) into a repetition of a moment. Inspired by the fragility of narrative structures, the work connects the physicality of corners and projects into the supporting environment to question the Eurocentric hegemony of history, time and space.

Desirous of a return to an imagined place, the work layers the collective archetype of the triangle to create the patterns and shape of an interwoven manifestation of memory and history.