salt. by Selina Thompson Q&A

Published: May 31, 2018, 3:33 a.m.

b'Two artists got on a cargo ship and retraced one of the routes of the Transatlantic Slave Triangle \\u2013 from the UK to Ghana to Jamaica, and back. Their memories, their questions and their grief took them along the bottom of the Atlantic and through the realm of an imaginary past. It was a long journey backwards, in order to go forwards.\\n\\nThis show is what they brought back.\\n\\nsalt. is about grief, ancestry, home, forgetting and colonialism. It\\u2019s about where colonial history exists in the everyday, the politics of grief, and what happens inside Selina\\u2019s head whenever someone asks \\u2018Where are you from?\\u2019 and won\\u2019t take Birmingham or her mum\\u2019s uterus for an answer. It\\u2019s about being part of a diaspora.\\n\\nsalt. creates a space for us to talk about all of these things, to see where we fit and to think about the changing and healing that is still to come'