Shiraz Bayjoo

United Kingdom

London

Ed Cross

Textile Art

San Vizyon

Painting

En Cours, (collection 1), assorted

En Cours, Pour le Patrimoine (2)

En Cours, Nu Ban Ansyen (2)

En Cours, Water banana study (1)

En Cours, Nu Ban Ansyen (1)

En Cours, Pour le Patrimoine (1)

En Cours, Avec Nu (1)

En Cours, Avec Nu (2)

Coral Island (set 5)

Coral Island (set 7)

Shiraz Bayjoo’s first solo show with Ed Cross Fine Art – Apart Bez, Tu Korek – considers the implications of social and colonial hierarchies on both communities and environments of the Indian Ocean. Across the exhibition’s two floors, the artist presents painting, photography, sculpture and installation to articulate his ongoing multidisciplinary and research-based practice.

Apart Bez, Tu Korek grapples with the visual language of European status imposed on native populations and reconfigured by Bayjoo materially and conceptually. The exhibition’s archival genealogies stem from Malagasy culture as well as Bayjoo’s own Mauritian heritage; its Creole title, meaning ‘everything’s fine except for the fuckery’, wryly illuminates the exploitation which brought the region’s linguistic diversity into being. 

16th June - 11th July, 2021 at the Clerkenwell Gallery, 20 Clerkenwell Green, EC1R 0DP, London

Tuesday to Saturday, 11am – 6pm // Sunday by appointment

Apart Bez, Tu Korek

Apart Bez, Tu Korek

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