A conservator imagines ghosts of 18th-century Black London including a dancing vagabond figure. Choreography by Javier De Frutos.
Filmed in the Sir John Soane museum in London, 'Vagabondia' is a film in which curation meets choreography. A black female conservator imagines the buried stories and the hidden histories within the museum's cornucopia of colonial plunder. Filmed with fluid camera movements and a sensuous attention to lighting-camera work, Julien makes of the museum a world of shadows, mirrors and frames-within-frames where the statues also dream and the vagabond spirit of colonialism's repressed memory comes dancing, jerkily, back to life.
Refer to Victoria Miro Gallery.
Screening Vagabondia at Tate and Studio Museum (Harlem)
