Notre Dame Des Laves presents the work of Réunionese artist Stéphanie Brossard for the first time in the UK. Two large format installations will be exhibited, both concerning the ecology of La Réunion. Glissement de terrain and Rendez-vous are informed by the omnipresence of disaster for Réunion residents (with the threat of hurricanes, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions punctuating daily life). Through these works, Brossard confronts the violence of forced assimilation and cultural upheaval that arises when natural disaster collides with the socio-economic conditions of the French colony.
Waywardly in Low Tide presents a series of sculptural works by Puerto-Rican and Dominican artist Jesús Hilario-Reyes. Utilising sound installation, concrete, metal, salt, hosiery and dehydrated hog bladders, this new body of work pulls from the artist’s ongoing exploration of fugitivity through the modes of queer nightlife, the carnival, and ‘destierro’ (an untranslatable Spanish term most closely meaning ‘being torn from the land’).
