![]() ![]() These evocations come in a very distinctive form in the work of M. It tells the story of what happens to these men and women during their journeys and what they are forced to learn or relearn what they choose to remember or forget and how their lives are always irreversibly transformed. Her work echoes her own childhood and life (the experience of losing both a language and a set of mental and physical cultural references) and in doing so becomes a medium through which she evokes the thwarted paths men and women travel before they eventually settle. ![]() Evans is interested in understanding how modern Britain’s social, cultural and political dynamics are products of its imperial past. While history lessons from primary to secondary school taught her very little about the relationships between the British Empire and its colonies, her studies at the Rijksakademie (Amsterdam) and Goldsmiths College (London) enabled her later to develop an artistic practice driven by historical research. She has said, “what brought us together was our immigrant status”. She was raised in North East London, where she went to school with children from mixed backgrounds, from Irish to African-Caribbean to Indian. Mary Evans was born in Lagos and has lived in London ever since she moved there with her family in the late 1960s. ![]()
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