Diasporas are the Landscape
Visual Studies Workshop
36 King St.
Oct 3, 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Diasporas are the Landscape features three contemporary photography and film artists whose work explores experiences of diaspora from diverse geographical, cultural and linguistic perspectives. Each artist has been developing practices that intimately engage with the struggle to maintain traditions and identities across borders, the performance and archiving of collective memories, and the process of recovery and illumination of lost histories.

Further uniting their varying perspectives, each artist uses imagined, real, or artificial tropical flora and fauna as metaphors to explore their unique diasporic experiences. The gallery will feature a new film and video installation from the series Roots of Support by Claudia Claremi (b. 1986, Spain), an installation of dioramas from the series Portable Homeland by Samantha Box (b. 1977, USA), and an installation of photo-embroidery work by Alida Rodrigues (b. 1983, UK). Diasporas are the Landscape is curated by VSW Assistant Curator and Artist Hernease Davis.

Diasporas are the Landscape runs through December 13 in the VSW Gallery.

Image credit: Plantain (Musa x acuminata), kluai, Pisang, Alida Rodrigues, 2021