An undulating, rattan weave structure is the result of a collaboration between Cave_bureau and researchers at the Royal Danish Academy, developed following a research trip to the Kenyan coastal town of Shimoni in 2021.
The installation is a 1:1 scale reproduction of the interior of one of the Shimoni Caves, reimagining a space of trauma as a space for repair and healing, uncovering forgotten histories from the accumulation of silt and sand.
Collaborators: Phillip Ayres and Jack Young at the Royal Danish Academy.
‘We traveled 500 kilometers from Nairobi into the coastal town of Shimoni in Kwale County, which sits on the Indian Ocean and next to the border of Tanzania and Kenya, where the cave was used as a chamber to store slaves. Equally, it was a site where the British first landed in Kenya as a colonial exploit, and a site to continue the Imperial project, albeit through a colonial guise.’
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