Nanan’s art on display at Medulla Gallery

Wendy Nanan’s Independence will be on exhibit at the Medulla Art Gallery, Fitt Street, Woodbrook with an opening reception on August 2. The exhibit will showcase Queens, The Baby Krishna, The Nation Morphs and A Buddhist Meditation Work—Enlightenment Is. Nanan said: “The making of Queens, papier-mâché heads collaged with stamps, was first inspired by the hosting of CHOGM here in Trinidad and Tobago, and then by the celebration of the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. “The work raises questions of British Colonial Imperialism and that colonial brainwashing has formulated the thinking patterns of the now ‘independent’ peoples. The statement: ‘How can a woman from Siparia ever be a Prime Minister?’ is a direct result of that colonial conditioning and the clinging to our own now self-imposed mental slavery. 

 

 

“In the year of the Golden Jubilee, black faces are absent from the crowds celebrating the royal pomp and splendour, the faces from the empire on which that pageantry has thrived and survived. However, some were placed upfront in that layered and heavily-mortared spin of the service and ambiance of the royals which is being staged this year. “We are not truly independent until we divest ourselves of the bowing and scraping to others whom we are told are better than us because of religion, race and class. Instead we seem to have adopted these same prejudices in the quest for power and control.”

 

 

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