1957 Chevy Apparition

Neon Pink, HD video, 2017

1957 Chevy Apparition was an exhibition featuring three short films produced in Cuba with Florrie James. They use a mixture of documentary and fiction to explore the vastly differing and contradictory ways Cuban history and politics are represented.

The first film, Neon Pink, represents a slipping of consciousness of its central narrator, who travels through memories and time, grasping at a whole vision but never managing to break through the layers of truth and invention. 

The second film, Transgenic Technology and Recombinant DNA Techniques is a fictional report on the state of agriculture on the island in a time of considerable economical and social change.

The third, Caña, is an allegorical story of a woman wondering through a sugar cane plantation,  coming across three apparitions who embody the distant voices of post colonial writer Ngugi Wa Thiongo, Bolivian feminist activist group Mujeres Creando, and feminist theorist Luce Irigaray.

Transgenic Technology and Recombinant DNA Techniques, HD Video, 2017
Caña, HD video, 2017
1957 Chevy Apparition installation view, Market Gallery Glasgow, 2017
1957 Chevy Apparition installation view, Market Gallery Glasgow, 2017