Talk:Reframing Picton: In Conversation with Gesiye & Laku Neg

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To accompany the Reframing Picton exhibition, join us for an afternoon of conversation between the Sub-Sahara Advisory Panel (SSAP) Youth Leadership Network and the artists Gesiye and Laku Neg from the Reardon Smith Lecture Theatre at National Museum Cardiff.

This event will provide a focus for discussion of Gesiye’s The Wound is a Portal  and Laku Neg’s Spirited, two acclaimed new immersive installations commissioned as part of the Reframing Picton  project, and now featuring in Wales’s national collection of art. 

The event will be introduced by Dr Kath Davies, Amgueddfa Cymru’s Director of Collections & Research  and chaired by a member of the SSAP Youth Leadership Network.  

The Artists Gesiye & Mary-Anne of Laku Neg Collective will be joining the Conversation digitally from Trinidad.

 

  • Reframing Picton will be open for those that would like to view the exhibition before the event.  
  • This event will take place with a live audience and will also be broadcast live online simultaneously 
  • This is an English language event 
  • *12-18 year olds must be accompanied by an adult 

 

Reframing Picton is the result of a partnership between Amgueddfa Cymru and the SSAP Youth Leadership Network. The project team worked on reframing the colonial narrative around a portrait of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Picton, governor of Trinidad 1798-1803.  

 

A key outcome of this reframing was the decision to commission new works of art by Trinidadian artists, as a way of amplifying the voice and lived experience of those originally neglected in the telling of Picton’s story.  

 

Gesiye is a multi-disciplinary artist living and working in Trinidad & Tobago. She creates documentary photographs, films, tattoos, illustrations and performance to explore embodiment and storytelling as forms of liberation.  

Laku Neg is an artist-run company that promotes expressions of African diaspora knowledge. The collective is represented by Trinidadian artists who live and work in Wales. 

 

 Members get free tickets

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27 January 2024, 3pm - 5pm
Cost Online: £3 | In the museum: £6 / £5 Concession | Members go free
Suitability 12+*
Reframing Picton - In Conversation

Reframing Picton - In Conversation

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