Installation View. Forever, 3-channel video, 2019
A World of Islands: On Palms, Storms and Coconuts
Curated by Ligaya Salazar
Stanley Picker Gallery, University of Kingston, London
11 May – 23 September 2023


Curated by Ligaya Salazar, A World of Islands considers the movement of indigenous knowledge, practices, materials and people, and historical and current fabrications of tropical utopia and dystopia. Locating the ‘tropics’ as both a mythological and real place with shared colonial and ecological trauma but wildly divergent histories and cultures, the exhibition unpicks some of the clichés and relocates agency in the ‘tropical’ narrative.






Installation View. A World of Islands: On Palms, Storms and Coconuts. Stanley Picker Gallery, University of Kingston, London

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