Bring Me
To Heal
Dates
Wednesday 2 November 2022, 6.30-9pm
Screening from 7pm
Screening and Q&A
Free ticket essential
FormaHQ
140 Great Dover Street
SE1 4GW London
Bring Me To Heal
Amartey Golding
Screening and artist Q&A at FormaHQ
In celebration of Black History Month, Forma is proud to present a screening and artist Q&A with Amartey Golding for his recent commission, Bring Me to Heal.
The artist often turns to his Anglo-Scottish and Ghanian ancestry by way of a Rastafarian upbringing as a point of departure to explore the drivers of human behaviour. Through film, photography and an increasingly labour-intensive process of sculpture, he creates dreamlike spaces, steeped in historical reference in which to locate characters experiencing moments of immutable change – points of no return that often leave the future hanging in the balance.
As the title suggests, 'Bring Me to Heal' searches for the point at which the tide of trauma can be steered towards a process of healing and away from further embedding itself in our collective psyche.
For this, Golding looks to the vital restorative work undertaken by Rastafarian and many other communities dealing with generational trauma and in a radical shift, applies these same techniques of context, accountability and compassion to the White British experience. 'Bring Me To Heal' is therefore a plea, an invocation for us to acknowledge the importance of understanding our emotional past and to establish a more equitable future. It is also a warning of the consequences we will continue to face if we don’t.
This event has been made possible through the kind support of Southwark Council as part of Black History Month 2022.
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This event has been made possible through the kind support of Southwark Council in celebration of Black history Month 2022.