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Where Old Stones Are Set

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Where Old Stones Are Set: The Poetics and Politics of Cultural Memory in the Built Heritage of Port of Spain, Trinidad

by Artist Tamara Cruikshank Submitted in partial fulfilment
of the requirements for the a practice-based MPhil in Cultural Studies at the University of the West Indies. 


Opening Reception: Friday 8th June 2018 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm 

Exhibition continues until 29th June 2018

Opening Hours: Monday - Saturday from 10am - 5pm


Artist Statement
I see the built heritage of the urban environment as layered poetic and political expressions of cultural memory. Built heritage is a tangible medium that is inscribes, through its material presence, historical and cultural meanings into the placescape. At the same time, historical architecture is used to prescribe cultural values associated with these layered meanings of place. 
In these ways, and because of its abundance in the city, the old architecture in Port of Spain inspires a complex genius loci or sense of place. These images, coupled with the collages exhibited in this show, consider this complexity of meaning of place. They represent personal interpretations of cultural memory attached to sites and architectural materials, and speculate upon the ways in which the past is remembered within the context of the present through materiality and processes of negotiation, narration and memory-making.

Tamara works in various media and has shown locally in several exhibitions for a number of years to date, most recently in a group exhibition in 2015, ((S)HOW), and at Art Bemao, Guadeloupe, in 2010. 
She also made a feature-length documentary (Come With It: A Biography of Black Stalin’s Consciousness) in 2012.
She received a BA in Visual Arts from the University of the West Indies in 2008

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