FOSSILIZED SUNSHINE

Camille Turner and Camal Pirbhai, Shaheer Zazai, Larissa Sansour, Lisa Jackson, Wally Dion, Timothy Yanick Hunter

August 1 - September 21, 2021

Visual Arts Centre Clarington

The Visual Arts Centre of Clarington is pleased to present Fossilized Sunshine, an exhibition exploring the relationship between cultural archeology and decolonial counter-futurisms. Through Afghan, Palestinian, Indigenous, and Afro-Futurisms, the seven exhibiting artists dismantle colonial narratives by prioritizing polyphonic communities’ artefacts and their cultural histories. While conventional futurisms often rely on visionary technology, space travel, and science-fictive elements, Fossilized Sunshine is instead inspired by ethnoarchaeology, the study of contextualizing archaeological objects through the observation of contemporary cultures. Conflating past, present, and future, the artists use archaeological materials as catalysts to (re)invent diverging future realities severed from Western hegemony.