Epic Memory – Grenada pavilion 58th Venice Biennale

My Father’s Land

“My project considers a fiction, a story that could have been had I grown up on the island of Grenada in the Caribbean. The title of the series expresses a connection – and simultaneously a detachment – from the landscape that confronts me. The tittle is, in effect, a way to discuss broader ideas and possibilities around the concepts of identity, belonging and lineage. It takes the perspective of an individual who may be connected by blood, race and history, but is surrounded by an environment that they have little knowledge of. The project’s stimulus lies in conversations that I have had with my peer group in Britain – those born of Caribbean families who embody a duality of belonging and identity. The photographs attempt to visualise coming to terms with the idea of ‘home’ being somewhere else, with a history before me and one to pass on (in some shape or form) to my successors with the refrain..my father’s land.