Christopher Cozier

Christopher Cozier presented a series of newly commissioned drawings at Lush Building. A continuation of his Dark Circles project (2014-ongoing), the work, turbulence (2019–2021), responds to the threat of the global petroleum economy on the social space and on the environment. Exploring the modern economic and environmental history, Cozier extends the notion of the Caribbean as a space where transnational trading of bodies and raw materials largely drove the global modern economy. Interested in Sylvia Wynter’s rethinking of what constitutes “human” and Amitav Ghosh’s questions on ecology, imagination and science fiction, Cozier’s drawings depict mysterious hybrid creatures which represent the entanglement and assimilation of Carribbean and world histories.

Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial.

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