Installed at InLight 2022 in Richmond VA, “A cabin of articulaged histories” sought to link my biography, as a Malawian living in America, to that of Bryan Park’s history of anti-slavery revolt. The term articulage combines the traditional art term assemblage i.e. to assemble disparate objects; and the theoretical term articulation, i.e. how relatively autonomous structures, such as the economy and religion, are linked together and shape each other in a social formation. The objects, such as lamps and a sewing machine, assembled and housed in the cabin are material for reflecting upon biography, history, diaspora, and home.

Installation Views

There is a white shed with its door open. Inside, there are three stretched gas lamps glowing in a dark room. There are on top of an old table and a box. On the exterior of the shed, above the doorframe, is "05/01" writing in charcoal.  

Two gas lamps are stretched out and leaning on one another. They are within a metal box with the sides taken out. They are glowing in a dimly lit room.

A white shed is illuminated in the dark. Inside are old gas lamps glowing with warm yellow light. On the exterior of the shed are shadows of people.