Installation view of SANCINTYA MOHINI SIMPSON’s ma maram (detail), 2023, scorched reclaimed mango wood, Nyoongar name: kondil / kulli (also known as sheoak), hand-burnished black clay lotas fired in sugarcane and sawdust, scent (distilled mango leaves and smoke from burning sugarcane), at "am / amma / ma maram," 2023, Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts, Perth. Photo by Dan McCabe. Courtesy the artist.
Sancintya Mohini Simpson Brisbane
Drawing on research into her maternal family’s history, Sancintya Mohini Simpson investigates the legacies of Indian indentured labor in the British colony of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal province in South Africa) from 1860 to 1911. As a descendent of this community, more than 200,000 of whom were recruited from the port of Madras (Chennai) to work on sugar plantations, Simpson navigates the complexities of trauma, migration, and memory, aiming to reappraise their forgotten narratives.
