Hester’s work shows a group of Chinese sailors seaman who suddenly disappeared from Liverpool in 1946. It's only in the early 2000s that information was pieced back together, this was a government-ordered forcible repatriation, and many details remain unclear.
This project is rooted in the lived experience of three families deeply affected by the deportation as well as the subsequent fifty years of denial and concealment. Combining interview texts, prints, family photographs, archive documents, the series is a multilayered meditation on memory, historical trauma and erasure. A series of photographic prints depicting sites that hold significant links to the deportation were submerged in the seawater collected near Gladstone Dock, where one of the main ships used for the repatriation was anchored. The disintegrated images visually reference the fading of memories as well as different layers of erasure.
Visit Sarah Owusu solo exhibition.
Sarah‘s work with portraits of herself, friends and strangers Sarah’s paintings draw attention to featurism and examines black facial phenotypes, to question why beauty is always viewed through a eurocentric lens.
Tap girl🙋🏻♀️
Today Just School display
Thank Mickey @theartsybostonian for helping to install and adjust the photos, will's tape, @willadamsart ，My models and interviewed friends. The whole@photos have not been finished yet.🤦🏻♀️
