We are excited to present ‘Who’s gonna clean the mess in/of your garden?’ – a performative workshop by melissandre varin for black and global majority beings taking place at Grand Union gallery on Saturday 5 November, 12-3 pm.
Get your hands dirty with braiding, (dis)placing, shifting, and harvesting. Inspired by In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens by Alice Walker (1972), and the beings (in melissandre’s lineage) who clean(ed) other people’s house/working space. This is an invitation to re-imagine, re-model, and re-form worlds into braids.
melissandre varin is an undisciplined artist investigating love, intimacy, and tenderness in collectives/clouds from an Afro and Caribbean diasporic context. Relation, displacement, multiplicity, interdependency, and language emerge from their work.
As there are limited spaces on the workshop, we ask that you please send an expression of interest to info@grand-union.org.uk and we will get back to you in due course.
Lunch will be provided as part of the workshop, please let us know if you have any dietary requirements in your email.
Who’s gonna clean the mess in/of your garden? forms part of the public programme for We gather and dream of new congregations, an exhibition by Alberta Whittle.
Images by Ayesha Jones