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Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales
Thisbe, Present and Luisa Calderon are three named victims of Picton's brutal regime in Trinidad. What would they say if they were here? Our installation aims to transform their torture into dance, their scream into song in a yard of play and praise - to rise, despite confinement and oppression.
This ancestral work acknowledges that despite carrying trauma in our DNA, we honour fractured traditions and we re-imagine and re-create something whole. We re-claim power from the devastation of their lives and ours.
This offering recognises those who have so far been unnamed in the telling of colonial history. Their story is our story. We give Thisbe, Present and Luisa space to play, to experience a childhood lost.
Laku Neg, 2022
