Talks & Seminars
In Conversation: Sonia Boué and Ashokkumar D Mistry
Alongside the Preview, hear artists Sonia Boué & Ashokkumar D Mistry discuss their new John Hansard Gallery exhibition with DASH Director Heather Peak
Las Gemelas: Arrival (a lexicon of unmaking) by Boué and Mistry is inspired by the story of the almost 4,000 Basque child refugees who arrived on board the SS Habana in Southampton on 23 May 1937. The Special Collections at the University of Southampton now holds archives relating to this event, the biggest single influx of refugees in British history.
Las Gemelas (The Twins), the creative duo Sonia Boué and Ashokkumar D Mistry, have different relations to these archives: Boué’s father was himself a political exile from the Spanish Civil War, while Mistry’s family fled the tumult of the waning days of Empire. Concerned with human and historical dislocations, the duo present their lexicon of unmaking.
Las Gemelas: Arrival (a lexicon of unmaking) opens on 5 October 2024 and runs until 11 January 2025. More information here.
Las Gemelas (The Twins), the creative duo Sonia Boué and Ashokkumar D Mistry, have different relations to these archives: Boué’s father was himself a political exile from the Spanish Civil War, while Mistry’s family fled the tumult of the waning days of Empire. Concerned with human and historical dislocations, the duo present their lexicon of unmaking.
Las Gemelas: Arrival (a lexicon of unmaking) opens on 5 October 2024 and runs until 11 January 2025. More information here.
