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Bermuda Biennial
Project Type
Watercolour & Poetry
Date
June 2022
Location
Bermuda National Gallery
Role
Exhibiting artist
Project type
Group show
Visual art and poetry selected for the 2022 Bermuda Biennial at the Bermuda National Gallery.
Biennial artist statement: “My creative work is an exploration of my identity and experience as a neurodivergent, Black, Indigenous, Woman of Colour in a world – and on an island – that would demand my assimilation and my silence. Each
of my submissions claims part of that story.
This painting of my partner and his teenage son represents the act of resistance that is loving Black Bermudian boys. Generations of trauma have deprived us of Black fathers. The title is also the translation of my partner’s reclaimed Yoruba surname.
proud. In 2021, I reclaimed my maternal indigenous Borneo surname as I could no
longer retain an enslaver’s brand on my identity. This poem challenges us to consider
what it means to be Bermudian.
yellow. An anti-Black term of endearment. A sign of long-term alcoholism. The effects
of a suicide attempt. The predation of young women. The cycle continues.
latchkey lot. A snapshot of the vulnerability of childhood. Our proximity to one another means the past is always present.”
