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Runout, 2023.

Ebonised ash timber, mild steel, studded upholstery.

W2600 x D3800 x H4100 (mm).
 

Dancing Before the Moon, British Pavillion, Venice Biennale 2023.

Visually ambiguous, this exaggerated futuristic object made using ebonised and polished ash timber, resembles somewhere between an abstracted domino and an unknown living form - both nostalgic and idiosyncratic. Its deliberate scale and stature represent the integrity and pride that British-Jamaican communities have built around their collective culture. It also embodies idealised narratives of the diaspora upheld by a new generation of British Jamaicans, informed by hybridised experiences of Caribbean and British culture. Just as memories and stories warp and evolve throughout time, the form of the domino in this sculpture has become obscured and abstracted. Grounded in studded upholstery, the object references the interior seating of Jamaican-run pubs in the Midlands, UK, where dominoes is frequently played, and British and Caribbean culture collide.

 

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