Het Nagesprek (The Aftertalk)

Exhibition with Suelae Robinson and Sarojini Lewis

Works shown: A collection of works titled: Plant Memory - How Culture Exists Through What We Grow and Eat

Collection Text: Suelae Robinson shows different works all dedicated to celebrating Caribbean culture through plants. Coming from an Afro-Caribbean background Suelae aims to uncover the ways certain plants were useful to enslaved and indentured peoples before and how they are still interacted with today. These works ask how we can look at plants and foods as a lens to understand history, to remember stories of ancestors, to carry on the legacy of our cultures. Through tactile textiles and bold colours, Suelae invites the viewer to think about what stories reside in what we grow and what we eat.