Liverpool Biennial 2021. Curated by Margarida Mendes at the Liverpool Biennial, conveniently titled ‘the refracted body’ when what matters is a glimpse of life at the other end (of the English biennial).
Thảo Nguyên Phan– Becoming Alluvium, 2019, 16 minutes
Becoming Alluvium is Phan’s most recent work: a single-channel colour film continuing her research into the Mekong River and the cultures that it nurtures. Through allegory, it explores the environmental and social changes caused by the expansion of agriculture, by overfishing and the economic migration of farmers to urban areas.
Hira Nabi – All That Perishes at the Edge of Land, 2019, 30 minutes
Ocean Master, a decommissioned container vessel, enters into a dialogue with several workers at the Gadani yards. The conversation moves between dreams, desires, places that can be called home, and the violence embedded in the act of dismantling a ship at Gadani.