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Film and conversation with artist, Shiraz Bayjoo
Shiraz Bayjoo
Sunday, 18th August 2024 from 5 – 7 PM
At MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, Chiang Mai
*This event will be conducted in English with Thai translation.
MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum and in-tangible institute invite everyone to explore the role of language and objects as talismans of protection and resistance in Shiraz Bayjoo's artistic practice. In conversation with Zoe Butt, co-curator of LIVING ANOTHER FUTURE, we will delve into how these themes resonate with the artwork in this exhibition. Shiraz Bayjoo, who lives and works between Mauritius and London, is the current 'Creative in Residence' at in-tangible institute.
Shiraz will share his film ‘Ile de France’ (2015), a non-narrative film that references several ‘ruins’ in his home of Mauritius, from sugar plantations to the water mill of a gunpowder factory overrun with Banyan tree vines, to religious motifs and objects from Muslim and
Indian traders who took possession of this island nation’s European colonial mansions from the late 19th century. Following the screening, in conversation with Zoe Butt, Shiraz will explore the role of language and objects as talismans of protection and resistance in his work, particularly for communities impacted by the ongoing (violent) legacies of colonial extraction and slavery. These themes will be brought into conversation with artworks by Tuan Andrew Nguyen, Khvay Samnang, Sammy Baloji, Sara Ohaddou, and other artists on display as part of the ‘LIVING ANOTHER FUTURE’ exhibition at MAIIAM Contemporary Art
Museum.
Two red truck return-services are provided to join this event for free.
Pick up point: Prasert Land parking lot (https://maps.app.goo.gl/iREfPrc5jbvrgwar6)
Departure: 3.30 PM (truck will begin collecting passengers from 3.00 PM)
Red truck services will depart MAIIAM at 8.00 PM.
Register before DATE to secure the limited seats: publicprogram@maiiam.com
About the artist
Shiraz Bayjoo (b. 1979, Mauritius)
Shiraz Bayjoo is a contemporary multi-disciplinary artist who works with film, painting, photography, performance, and installation. His research-based practice focuses on personal and public archives addressing cultural memory and postcolonial nationhood in a manner that challenges dominant cultural narratives. Born in Port Louis, Mauritius, much of Bayjoo’s art explores colonial histories of exchange between and across the Indian Ocean. Bayjoo has exhibited with the Gropius Bau, Berlin; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; Kunstal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Institute of International Visual Arts, London; New Art Exchange, Nottingham; 5th Edition Dhaka Art Summit; 14th Biennale of Sharjah; 13th Biennale of Dakar; and 21st Biennale of Sydney. Bayjoo is a recipient of the Gasworks Fellowship and the Arts Council of England, and was commissioned for Art Night, London 2019. He was an artist in residence at the Delfina Foundation in 2021, and was awarded the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship. Bayjoo presented a solo exhibition at the Diaspora Pavilion for the 59th Venice Biennial in 2022, and the 15th edition of Sharjah Biennial 2023. Shiraz currently lives and works in Mauritius and London. https://shirazbayjoo.com/
