3-channel projection, 2.1 sound

Linda Lamignan’s work questions the different ways in which humans treat and value the natural world, whether for profit or as something to be respected and protected. They work with materials connected to the industries, histories, living landscapes and cultural relations between West Africa and Europe. This new multi-screen video work references the artist’s ancestry, the knowledge systems of animism – the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence – and geology. It centres around the long history of palm oil and petroleum extraction in Nigeria’s Delta State and the trade with Liverpool from the late 18th century to the present.

Courtesy of the artist and Liverpool Biennial. Images by Mark McNulty.