The poem is called Insurance

Ayesha Hameed, The poem is called Insurance, 2026
Silkscreen Somerset Tub Sized 410gsm
42 x 30 cm
Edition of 20
Signed and numbered on the reverse

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About the work
'Insurance' is a poem written by Ayesha Hameed while she was Artist in Residence at the Camden Art Centre 2024-25 for six months. It is part of her ongoing research, writing and performance practice exploring legacies of Transatlantic Slavery, histories of migration and indenture on the Indian and Atlantic Oceans, and ecologies of oceanic spaces. ‘Insurance' is part of her monograph Black Atlantis which is forthcoming in Autumn 2026 with Strange Attractor/MIT Press.

About the artist
Ayesha Hameed’s recent commissions including solo and group exhibitions at Bonniers Konsthall (2022) Kunstinstituut Melly (2022), Indigo Waves and Other Stories at Zeitz MOCCA (2022), as well as contributions to the Liverpool Biennale (2021), Gothenburg Biennales (2019 and 2021), Momenta Biennale (2021), Lubumbashi Biennale (2019) and Dakar Biennale (2018).  Recent performances have been at Cafe Oto (2024), Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Madrid (2023), MACBA, Barcelona,(2020), Akademie der Künste der Welt , Cologne (2019) SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin (2019) and Camden Art Centre (2017) 
 
She is co-editor of Futures and Fictions (Repeater 2017) and co-author of Visual Cultures as Time Travel (Sternberg/MIT 2021) and is currently working on two new publications; her series of audio essays Black Atlantis with Strange Attractor Press and the radio series Brown Atlantis Radio with Centre for Art Reasearch and Alliances (CARA) in New York.