Libita Sibungu works with early photographic techniques, drawing and sound to uncover histories that connect people to place.
Fragments of real and imagined archives are woven together through sound, voice, and movement, forming shifting, living systems that resist being fixed.
These processes echo the exhibition’s engagement with decay, shapeshifting, and geological change. ZED LOVE gives form to resilience as an adaptive and evolving condition.
Within this context, the racialised body enters into conversation with mineral forms, with both understood as layered, evolving, and alive with memory. This relationship opens a space for navigating beyond the rigid categories shaped by colonial thinking. Dreams, visions, and memories converge here, inviting forms of becoming that resist fixed identities and singular narratives.
Grounded in research into the intertwined histories of interracial families and working-class experiences in Britain, the exhibition also engages ritual-based making as a way of holding and transmitting knowledge. Through these practices, Libita explores the possibility of healing across generations, while addressing the enduring effects of racialised trauma.
A public programme of events, both in the gallery and offsite, will accompany the exhibition. This will include performances, an artist talk, and workshops.

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