Colonial Reveries II

Goodspace Gallery, 2022

Pigment Print, 21 x 29.7cm and 21 x 41.8cm.

Colonial Reveries II uses the poetics of collage and digital manipulation to playfully juxtapose iconographic images of India and the UK. These assemblages of found images, superimposed in paradoxical and satirical ways, speculate an inverse narrative of colonisation in which Indian geographic symbols and cultural figures pervade both the foreground and background of seminal British landscapes. Allusive of the collage medium’s political origins in censorship and propaganda, the work explores the possibilities of digital post-production to situate a dialogue between feminist and postcolonial critique. In doing so, the work intends to grapple with the aftermath of imperial rule and the suppression of cultural identities through the palimpsest and effacement of pre-existing symbols of the Empire itself.