Ayesha Hameed: Brown Atlantis

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Title: Ayesha Hameed: Brown Atlantis
Description: Presented here is the first solo exhibition of London-based artist Ayesha Hameed in the Netherlands. Over the past decade, the artist has developed a long-term body of work titled Black Atlantis. In this, she explores the Black Atlantic—the fusion of Black cultures with other cultures from around the Atlantic—and its afterlives in contemporary illegalized migration at sea, oceanic environments, and outer space. More recently, Hameed has extended her attention to the Indian Ocean world: Brown Atlantis is a new project that explores the interwoven histories of enslavement with indentureship, looking at subaquatic worlds and oceanic ecologies.

Hameed’s solo exhibition presents a newly commissioned installation together with two recent textile-audio works that form part of Brown Atlantis. Her new work emerges from a recent research trip to Sri Lanka, investigating how coconuts—their origin myths, cellular structure, and circulation—can be seen to recapitulate histories of indigenous migration and colonial extraction across the Indian and Pacific Oceans. Her multi-channel sound and textile installations focus on historical events situated in subaquatic zones, highlighting the consequences of colonial occupation on both bodies and environments.

During the course of the exhibition, a new episode of her ongoing radio program Brown Atlantis, broadcast on Movement Radio and Radio alAhara, will be hosted in the galleries and made available online. For more information, visit the ENGAGE section on our website.

Participants

Ayesha Hameed

Curators

Rosa de Graaf

Series

SOLO DUETS

Supported By

AMMODO

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Identifier: KIM-EXH-1311; 22_3
Type: Exhibition
Date: 2022-05-06/2022-08-21
Temporal Coverage: 2022
Publisher: Kunstinstituut Melly
Spatial Coverage: Rotterdam
Language: en
Is Part Of: Exhibition history; SOLO DUETS
Rights Holder: Kunstinstituut Melly
Creator: Ayesha Hameed
Contributor: Rosa de Graaf
Source: https://www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl/en/exhibitions/1311-ayesha-hameed-brown-atlantis
depiction: https://www.kunstinstituutmelly.nl/images/KI_MELLY_2022_Ayasha_Hameed_LR_011_2.jpg?w=1500
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Ayesha Hameed, Two Ships, 2021, 7 hessian textiles dyed in turmeric, cinnamon, cacao, coffee, barbary fig, soaked in the River Thames, London, and the River Maas in Rotterdam, and rusted with iron, 6.1 sound, 23:39 minutes, courtesy the artist. Exhibition overview Ayesha Hameed, Brown Atlantis, 2022, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, NL. Photographer: Kristien Daem.
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Ayesha Hameed, An Unatlas of Coconut #1, 2022, 67 serigraph prints, text panels, courtesy the artist. Exhibition overview Ayesha Hameed, Brown Atlantis, 2022, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, NL. Photographer: Kristien Daem.
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Ayesha Hameed, An Unatlas of Coconut #1, 2022, 67 serigraph prints, text panels, courtesy the artist. Exhibition overview Ayesha Hameed, Brown Atlantis, 2022, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, NL. Photographer: Kristien Daem.
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Ayesha Hameed, I Sing of the Sea, I am Mermaid of the Trees, 2021/2022, 20 cyanotypes panels, printed on textiles, 10 channel sound installation, 35:11 minutes, courtesy the artist. Exhibition overview Ayesha Hameed, Brown Atlantis, 2022, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, NL. Photographer: Kristien Daem.
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Ayesha Hameed, I Sing of the Sea, I am Mermaid of the Trees, 2021/2022, 20 cyanotypes panels, printed on textiles, 10 channel sound installation, 35:11 minutes, courtesy the artist. Exhibition overview Ayesha Hameed, Brown Atlantis, 2022, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, NL. Photographer: Kristien Daem.
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Ayesha Hameed