COLONIAL ENTANGLEMENTS
My name is JC Candanedo, UK-based Queer Multidisciplinary Artist. In my series Colonial Entanglements, I wrap everyday objects (a chair, a globe, a book) using my phototextile artefacts and sisal rope to interrogate the enduring, often invisible, legacy of the European colonial project on our modern world. The objects are rendered immobile, bound by the physical weight of history through a process of wrapping and restrictive knotting. They become at the same time sculptural objects and cargo.
Building on the ideas of Man Ray, and Christo and Jean Claude, artists who wrapped objects to conceal their meaning or to explore the conservation of the object itself, these sculptural objects create a visual tension between the objects we use and the systems that provide them. This work serves as a reminder that innovation in the Global North is inextricably tied to the historical and ongoing exploitation and extraction of resources from the Global South.
