Elizabeth Kwant: Am I not a woman and a sister at Merseyside Maritime Museum & International Slavery Museum, Liverpool

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Elizabeth Kwant: Am I not a woman and a sister

Maritime Museum, Waterfront
15 November 2019-15 February 2020

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Elizabeth Kwant: Am I not a woman and a sister at Merseyside Maritime Museum & International Slavery Museum, Liverpool
'Am I not a woman and a sister' by Elizabeth Kwant. Film still. Four channel HD Video with sound (2019)
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‘Am I not a woman and a sister’ is a new moving image installation by Manchester-based artist Elizabeth Kwant, co-created with female survivors of modern-day slavery in partnership with Liverpool charity City Hearts.

The work is the culmination of a year-long project researching the archives and collection of the Merseyside Maritime Museum and the International Slavery Museum Liverpool, seeking to better understand the history of the trans-Atlantic slave trade and its connections to the North West of England – Kwant’s birthplace and the place she calls home.

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