Chorus of Soil . 2023
Drawing on the artist’s interest in hidden histories and archival material, Binta Diaw’s reimagining of her installation ‘Chorus of Soil’ (2023) uses soil and seeds to map an 18th century plan of the Brooks slave ship. Between 1782 and 1804, the Brooks departed from Liverpool to the West Coast of Africa, carrying over 5000 enslaved people to plantations in the Caribbean. Reimagined here on an almost 1:1 scale, the soil and seed plan is accompanied by a new sound work incorporating the voices of local people reciting the poem ‘Zong!’ (2008) by M. NourbeSe Philip.
Liverpool Biennial
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