‘This Map of Affections’ is a short film with an accompanying installation that explores a knowledge exchange event held on the Isle of Skye in 2022 attended by representatives of Indigenous and Traditional Peoples from Pará, north Brazil, and community activists and academics in Scotland. Land rights, solidarity and women’s voices are central to the conversations, which find commonalities around colonial erasure of traditional cultures and languages, private ownership and capitalism. Formally experimental; notes, audio-recordings and various artefacts become part of a careful counter-mapping of the exchange. ‘This Map of Affections’ stands as a reminder that land should not be thought of as something fixed or reducible, but as a site for constant negotiation.
‘This Map of Affections’, 2024. 4k video 30 min, custon seating, green emulsion paint, unfired clay tiles, felt.
‘This Map of Affections’ was exhibted at Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 2024 & Freelands Foundation, London, 2024
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With support from Hope Scott Trust & Strathclyde University
Photography by Sally Jubb courtesy of Talbot Rice Gallery
'This Map of Affections', installation image at Talbot Rice Gallery, 2024.
'This Map of Affections' (video still), 2024. 4k video, 30 mins.
'This Map of Affections' (video still), 2024. 4k video, 30 mins.
'This Map of Affections', installation image at Talbot Rice Gallery, 2024.
'This Map of Affections' (video still), 2024. 4k video, 30 mins.
'This Map of Affections' (production shot), 2024.
'This Map of Affections' (video still), 2024. 4k video, 30 mins.
'This Map of Affections' (clay tiles), 2024. Unfired clay and black felt.
'This Map of Affections' (video still), 2024. 4k video, 30 mins.
'This Map of Affections' (video still), 2024. 4k video, 30 mins.