Mai Al Shazly

Mai will travel to Johannesburg to take part in “Overwhelmed,” a collective art exhibition and forum on accumulated artifacts and remnants, the ornamentation on them and the legacy they carry. She will collaborate in an art project called “The Broken Trade Winds” which will be based on a study of the history of the raw materials used in African pottery and include archival investigations into materials introduced during the British colonial era, especially porcelain. The project will offer an analytical criticque of the role of trade during the British colonial period in West and Southern Africa in terms of the correlation between the growth of the use of porcelain and the manufacture of British style ceramics in Africa and the history of the slave trade in the countries of the African diaspora. The art work will consist of installations, printed materials and a video.