A brand new exhibition by The Singh Twins is aiming to convey new audiences and “problem perceptions” over the historical past of empire.
Slaves of Style, at Firstsite in Colchester, explores the themes of conquest, colonialism and slavery.
The sisters have created a set of 11 life-size portraits which take a chronological look of the historical past of the worldwide commerce in Indian textiles from “historical roots” to the current day.
“The historical past of empire and colonialism is one thing that is fairly often misperceived and this exhibition is all about difficult totally different perceptions of what that a part of our shared historical past is about,” they mentioned.
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