Elsa James: It Should Not Be Forgotten
Next: Saturday, 29 March 2025
Runs until Sunday, 6 July 2025 (See all dates)
- Time
- 10:00 - 17:00
- Venue
- Firstsite Colchester, Colchester, CO1 1JH
- Price
- Free
Join Essex artist Elsa James in examining the heart of Britain’s colonial past and its lasting impact on Black life today.
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“The show explores the rupture, erasure, and fragmentation of histories that shape Black life in the diaspora, inviting moments of understanding, healing, and community connection.”- Elsa James
What to expect
Experience a provocative mix of new work from renowned British African-Caribbean interdisciplinary artist Elsa James in her first major solo exhibition at Firstsite, featuring photography, neon, screen print and sound.
The works confront Britain’s “national amnesia” regarding its role in the transatlantic trafficking of enslaved African people and the colonial legacies that followed, offering a deeply moving and immersive experience.
Discover large-scale photographic pieces inspired by Christina Sharpe’s notion of how the slave ship marks and haunts contemporary Black life today.
Through her compelling response to the diaries of an 18th-century British plantation overseer and enslaver, uncover lesser-known facts from the nation’s colonial archives.
*Image Caption: Elsa James: Living in the Wake of the Lust for Sugar, Film still, London, Sugar & Slavery Gallery, Museum of London Docklands, Image: Andy Delaney 2023.
Venue
Firstsite Colchester
Lewis Gardens, High Street
Colchester
CO1 1JH
Dates
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