sorry we are close(d) (2021)
solo show
Funded and supported by Coventry Artspace and Coventry Biennial (GB)
series of sculptures and installations to be experienced from the street re-imagines a post-covid-19 futurity in the city. Exploring notions of consumption, and collective grief and healing in a time where art venues are closed in the UK .
Levitating at the intersection of pain and love melissandre (now known as n:u) uses the current context of a never coming ‘post-Covid 19’ and an ever awaited revolution as starting points. They assemble embodied transitions felt in their flesh, navigating Other’s ways to be in the public space, to (r)evolve as Black/queer, and to process exile (forced and voluntarily) in time of global pandemic. Questions of solidarity, futurity, racial capitalism, aesthetics and archiving intersect.
image credit: Mandip Singh Seehra, sorry we are closed, installation view Arcadia Gallery (GB), 2021
List of work presented:
offering to new ancestors: books by Black authors, canned food
ruins of heteronormativity:drawings by Eole (2yo), recycled fruit container, marker, paint, tape, 2 photos
post-Covid’: shopping cart, black synthetic hair, recycling, houseplant, found objects, shopping bag,
paint tools, spring from mattress, hoola hoops, bin bag, digital cam corder
moving images: fan, black and pink synthetic hair, coloured beads, family photo, hair rings, foam
