Shiraz Bayjoo's work explores legacies of European colonialism across the Indian Ocean region and beyond to the West. The lounge installation brings together an archive of photographs, paint-ings, ceramic sculptures, and videos into specially designed wooden vitrines and cabinets to create an immersive experience for visitors creating a small lagoon-like area focusing on a region off the coast of Africa that saw unparalleled forced movement of people through a complex and violent colonial history.
The work crosses over with Bayjoo's latest body of work Searching for Libertalia, which will pre-view at the Casablanca Biennale later this year and at New Art Exchange, Nottingham. The project, which has been developed with New Art Exchange, sees a new video work and archival materials based around Madagascar and its 19th century and 20th century history under French imperial-ism.
