Guardian · 9 days ago

Women Behind the lens: ‘I Envisioned These Slaves Whose Lives Were Exchanged for indigo’ | Art | the Guardian

In the shadowy recesses of an abandoned warehouse in Kampala, artist Stacey Gillian Abe found solace and inspiration at a time when her heart felt like an "isolated place." Her Indigogo project intertwined her personal journey of healing from a harrowing breakup with the historical narrative of indigo dye as a currency that once valued human lives over their identities. Through night-captured, long-exposure images of her own body, she resurrected the lost stories of enslaved individuals, while confronting her own sense of displacement and loss. As she peered into the echoes of history, she paradoxically documented her present, weaving her wounds into art that interrogated Black identity and feminine strength. The core theme emerges: transformation through identity, where art becomes both a personal catharsis and a historical reclamation.

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