New Black Narrative exhibition at the RWA, Bristol
From May to the beginning of July, I took part in the New Black Narrative exhibition at the RWA in Bristol. The exhibition, organised and curated by Bristol Black Creatives collective, explored ideas and themes of Black joy, empowerment, vulnerability and intimacy, celebrating and presenting a perspective that is often ignored in mainstream culture.
In this exhibition, I exhibited a sculptural piece entitled ‘Black Gold’ which consisted of nutmeg and cocoa pods made from cold casted metals such as bronze, Iron, brass and aluminium.
The sculptures explored the cultural and colonial history of botany, agriculture and of cash-crops grown in the Caribbean, and how these plants have gone on to shape the modern world.
The sculptures ask us to consider how these plants are consumed and discarded with the vast majority of production taking place in the global South and the majority of consumption taking place in the global North. They reflect upon discarded colonial aspects of history and invite observers to acknowledge those who laboured and built many agricultural and botanical industries as colonial subjects though are completely forgotten and ignored in historical accounts of botanical and agricultural production and discovery.
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