Maud Haya-Baviera focuss­es on war cor­re­spon­dence and oth­er his­tor­i­cal mate­ri­als that are able to con­vey a sense of nar­ra­tive or self-nar­ra­tive. She has start­ed draw­ing rela­tion­ships between past and cur­rent events, par­tic­u­lar­ly those relat­ing to pro­pa­gan­da and war-time. Through her research, she has found entic­ing visu­al mate­r­i­al able to sup­port a nar­ra­tive thread, and which will become part of a new video work. Vic­to­ria Lucas has devel­oped a con­stel­la­tion of images that bring togeth­er 18^th Cen­tu­ry bod­ies and land­scapes in a way that con­fronts colo­nial prac­tices and cap­i­tal­ist pow­er. Ovaries sit along­side chart­ed islands, depic­tions of colonis­ers are decon­struct­ed and pre­sent­ed as bru­tal­ly artic­u­lat­ed forms, mate­r­i­al traces are sub­vert­ed and used as fem­i­nist amulets to ward off evil. Joan­na Whit­tle exam­ines texts that describe these times of chaos, where the dev­il walks the earth and the fires of hell open­ly burn in the unsta­ble ground into which blas­phe­mers plum­met. Her draw­ings depict ruins con­struct­ed from the­ses lay­ered and makeshift shrines, erect­ed over and around them, and imag­ines the objects and tal­is­mans con­cealed in the pock­ets of shrouds.

This project has been gen­er­ous­ly sup­port­ed by the Four Nations Inter­na­tion­al Fund. We would like to thank every­one at G39 and the Spe­cial Col­lec­tions Team at Cardiff Uni­ver­si­ty for their won­der­ful sup­port and hos­pi­tal­i­ty through­out the project. The project will con­clude with an in-con­ver­sa­tion host­ed by Kün­stler­haus Dort­mund in Jan­u­ary 2023. Please fol­low us on Insta­gram for more infor­ma­tion and news updates.