Strictly Two Wheel wins Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival 2022 Best Short Documentary!
Sound, Stories is the sixth in a series of guest curated video exhibitions in Locust Projects’ Screening Room that launched in fall 2019. Guest curated by Heike Dempster: art writer, administrator, curator and collaborator; the exhibition features videos by Ania Freer, Ambrose Rhapsody Murray, and Helina Metaferia. Open to the public with a reception on Saturday, September 10 from 6-8pm and is on view through November 5, 2022 Wednesdays-Saturdays from 11am-5pm. Admission is free.
Ania Freer's six month curatorial fellowship culminates in a group exhibition that presents the unique craft practices and oral histories of seven artists working across Jamaica outside of mainstream knowledge. 'All that don't leave, brings together the work of Albert ‘St John’ Phipps, Kemel Leeford Rankine, Cecil ‘Bingy’ Smith, Racquel Brown, Alexander ‘Bamboo King’ Dempster, Jeffett ‘Georgie’ Strachan and Jennifer ‘Eighty’ Stewart who work in media and practices ranging from basket weaving and crochet to sign painting and wood carving. Through her curatorial project, Freer aims to create a space of equitable commerce and an alternative system of understanding the cultural and economic value of these makers and their practices, as well as the social contexts and pressures in which they have developed their work and continue to exist.
‘RIVER MAID is a video installation which tells the story of a woman who was abducted by a mermaid in the village of Shrewsbury Logwood, Westmoreland. This piece of work is from an ongoing series of contemporary stories and oral histories I have been collecting from remote river communities across Jamaica. My work celebrates the quiet stories, myths and folklore that may otherwise become forgotten.’
