Everything Has Something to Say, 2017
Mixed-media, site specific
A cheerful collection of impressions from in and around East London,
this work is a celebration of vegetable stalls, shopping bags, groceries and
lottery tickets, which move through our consciousness as we pass
through the streets.
This playful installation is featuring three projections, two on opposite walls
of the gallery and one in a corner just above head height.Two of the videos show
a colourful collection of fruit and vegetable cut-outs digitally mounted on coloured
backdrops and presented to us one after the other. Blueberry, blackberry, asparagus,
avocado, artichoke, etc. Each vegetable slowly enlarges before it’s replaced
by the next one. The third projection shows a more cryptic animation switching
between different illustrations: abstractions of striped shopping bags assembling
and disassembling and a £ sign with the line of text ‘Losing is a lovely game’.
The rhythmic offering plays to the beats of songs of Pakistani and other
origins coming through a speaker in the background. It’s devotional
music, celebratory and upbeat, speaking of love, life and god.
