Sonia Boyce in SEEDS AND SOULS, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
Sonia Boyce’s Crop Over (2007) is included in the group exhibition ‘Seeds and Souls’ at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen. Curated by Christine Eyene, the exhibition proposes new explorations into the connections between botanical histories, colonial legacies and diasporic experiences. Presented at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, which was built in the late 19th century on the grounds of Copenhagen’s then botanical garden, the exhibition draws parallels between original soil and vegetation – their extraction, consumption, transplantation, and mutation into new environments – and the phenomena of cultural dispersions anchored within histories that continue to impact us today.
Boyce presents the two-channel video installation and wallpaper, Crop Over (2007). The work explores the annual Crop Over harvest festival in Barbados, which historically marks the end of the sugar cane season. The film, shot on location at Harewood House, Leeds and Barbados, reminds us that the wealth generated by the exploitation of African slave labour fuelled the British Empire and underlies the annual Crop Over celebrations.
Other participating artists include Brook Andrew, Shiraz Bayjoo, Ishita Chakraborty, Annalee Davis, Michelle Eistrup, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe, Linda Lamignan and Yvon Ngassam. Christine Eyene is a Lecturer in Contemporary Art at Liverpool John Moores University and Research Curator at Tate Liverpool.
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Seeds and Souls
Kunsthal Charlottenborg,
Kongens Nytorv 1,
1050 København K, Denmark
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